Trump’s treatment of his vice president has reverberated in the White House and among campaign aides, many of whom see it as unseemly and unfair.
January 2021
Scholarships aid students working in essential jobs during pandemic
Chandler Guptill said the award means he is poised to finish his degree sooner than originally planned.
Maine trails other states in publishing vaccine data
But Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, says the state soon will update its vaccine dashboard with much more information.
Letter to the editor: Republicans must repudiate Trump, join impeachment effort
What happened Jan. 6 was the result of weeks of lies, encouragement and exhortation by President Trump, his family and supporters like Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell. Five people died. Worse than the deaths, however, was the attack on democracy. The executive encouraged a mob to attack the legislative branch for the purpose of interfering […]
Letter to the editor: How we can honor officer killed in mob riot
As we go forward, let’s consider how we can uphold ‘America’s highest aspirations,’ which Brian Sicknick died defending.
Letter to the editor: Media mea culpa overdue from Thiessen
I kept reading Washington Post commentator Marc A. Thiessen’s recent column (“In attack on the Capitol, Trump has blood on his hands,” Jan. 8, Page A13), where he states that people believed President Trump’s lies about the 2020 election “because the media – which is supposed to be an objective arbiter of facts – has […]
Ron Chase: Climbing Mount Charles Thomas Jackson
Distinctive Mount Jackson is located on the southwestern end of the Presidential Range in the New Hampshire White Mountains, New England’s most consequential mountaineering environment. Situated between less illustrious Mounts Pierce and Webster, I suspect most people assume Mount Jackson is named for the seventh president, Andrew Jackson. To quote one of the most intelligent […]
BikeMaine 2021 called off
PORTLAND — Due to concerns and uncertainty about the coronavirus pandemic, the Bicycle Coalition of Maine has canceled BikeMaine 2021. The annual weeklong cycling event with 450 participants, dubbed “Katahdin Frontier,” was set to take place Sept. 11-18 and include stops in Old Town, Lincoln, Patten, Millinocket, and Dover-Foxcroft. It initially had been set to […]