Overshadowing everything at the very start is Biden’s effort to win congressional approval of a $1.9 trillion plan to combat the coronavirus and the economic misery it has caused.
January 2021
Posted inMaine, News
More than 4,000 vaccine doses sent to Maine potentially spoiled because of temperature issues
The problem happened during packaging or shipping, but replacement doses were on the way to Maine, says Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine CDC.
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QAnon adherents discussed posing as troops to infiltrate inauguration, FBI briefing says
The document warned that ‘lone wolves’ and QAnon conspiracy theorists, some of whom participated in the violent siege on the Capitol , have indicated that they plan to come to Washington.
Posted inTimes Record
Brunswick Downtown Association’s annual meeting to be virtual
The Brunswick Downtown Association Annual Meeting will be held virtually on Thursday, Jan. 28, via Zoom. The theme of the meeting is A Year Like No Other. Bowdoin College Chief Financial and Administrative Officer Matthew Orlando will introduce incoming BDA board members and reveal the election results of new board members, conducted by email prior to the […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Mainewhile: The time that is given us
How are you doing? After the global dumpster fire that was 2020, it would have been kind of nice to get through the first month of the new year without an uptick in pandemic deaths, a full-out assault upon our democracy and a crashing economy to say nothing of the weather disasters in the nation. […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Letters: Reflections on 4 years of strife; Nuclear treaty is wake-up call
Reflections on 4 years of strife Before the clock strikes 12:01 pm and I allow myself a sigh of relief, I want to pause for a moment of reflection. It has been 2,045 days since Trump announced his candidacy for President of the United States of America… how naive we all were then. Some may […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
John Micek: Impeachment isn’t about Trump crossing the Rubicon
When Donald Trump became only president in our tangled history to be impeached twice, Americans found themselves asking, “What now?” The better question is “What’s next?” It goes beyond the prospect of a trial in the Senate that now appears set to unfold in the opening days of the new Biden administration, despite arguments over […]
Posted inTimes Record
The Recycle Bin: The basics of household recycling and plastics processing
The Recycle Bin is a weekly column on what to recycle, what not to recycle and why, in Brunswick. 1. Recycling is for household Items. Those are things that generally enter our home through places like the kitchen, the bathroom or the laundry. They do not include items for the yard, the cellar, or the […]
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Superintendent’s Notebook: Custodians among front-line heroes of pandemic
At the Portland Public Schools, we’ve always been grateful to our custodians for making sure the buildings we walk into each morning are clean and safe. Now, however, we are even more aware of how important their work is to safeguard the health of our students and staff. COVID-19 has made us value these essential […]