The news is full of reports about skyrocketing electric bills across the country and numerous outages in the Northeast. Maine gets its share of both. Something is wrong when the complaints occur as often and as loudly as they do now. Utilities and their friends have come up with ready responses that squarely place the […]
March 2018
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The Making of an Oyster Company
This is a story about two good men who have a very cool dream, one in which everybody wins. Let me explain. Brunswick native Doug Niven has spent his life on the water. “I hauled traps when I was only about eight or nine years old. Because of regulations I had to take along a […]
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The Other Sunday River
When Sunday River is mentioned, I suspect most people think of the ski resort. Not me. Instead, the mountain Sunday River Whitecap immediately comes to mind. Sunday River Whitecap is not part of the collection of mountains that constitute the ski resort. Rather, it is located on the opposite side of Sunday River Valley about […]
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Service Above Self Applies Internationally
March came in like a lion for this Brunswick Rotarian. I am a retired music teacher, led by my membership in Rotary to a whole new “career” and set of interests. The last week of February found me pursuing Peacebuilding through Disease Prevention and Treatment in Coventry, United Kingdom. I joined 500 other Rotarians from […]
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LETTERS
In Support of Activists and the First Amendment Today’s lesson (and it is a hard one): I have worked at BIW since 1986 and I love my job, but I worry about its future. People worry about their jobs and worry about the future of our state and the world in general. And all I […]
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Today in History
In A.D. 37, Roman emperor Tiberius died; he was succeeded by Caligula. In 1521, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan and his crew reached the Philippines, where Magellan was killed during a battle with natives the following month. In 1751, James Madison, fourth president of the United States, was born in Port Conway, Virginia. In 1802, President […]
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‘Stress test’ may have been factor in bridge collapse that killed 6
MIAMI An innovative pedestrian bridge being built at Florida International University was put to a “stress test” before it collapsed over traffic, killing six people and sending 10 to a hospital, authorities said. As state and federal investigators worked to determine how and why the five-day-old span failed on Thursday, one factor may have been […]
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Russia will expel British diplomats in poisoning standoff
MOSCOW Russia will expel British diplomats in a worsening global standoff over a nerve agent attack on an ex-spy — but still isn’t saying when or how many. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov today also accused Britain of violating international law and said Britain’s defense minister “lacks education.” Geopolitical tensions are mounting since the poisoning […]
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Desperate to stop party’s path, Flake eyes 2020 primary challenge
MANCHESTER, N.H. Jeff Flake has a direct message for the Republicans of New Hampshire: Someone needs to stop Donald Trump. And Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, may stand up against the Republican president in 2020 — either as a Republican or an independent — if no one else does. “It’s not in my plan […]
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At fundraising event, President Trump owns up to making things up
WASHINGTON President Donald Trump has owned up to making things up. For a meeting with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Trump was by his own admission unprepared — deficient in the fundamentals of the Canada-U.S. trade relationship that he’d been railing about since the campaign. He insisted to Trudeau that the U.S. was running a […]