Here’s how it goes: In the morning, take a few moments to place frozen shrimp in a Ziploc bag with a marinade made from a few pantry ingredients. Stick this combo in the fridge and leave it. This simple marinade is also delicious used with salmon, pork or chicken. Maple syrup can be substituted for […]
January 2021
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Another date that will live in infamy
Jan. 6 will live in infamy in the United States, and we’ll be vividly reminded every four years on certification day. The attack on our democratic republic, stoked by a vain and spiteful Donald Trump, is more frightening than even 9/11. Will the rioters, vandals and insurrectionists who assaulted the Capitol, our most visible symbol […]
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Guest column: January 6, 2021 — a day of ignominy
If Dec. 7, 1941 is remembered, thanks to Franklin Roosevelt, as a Day of Infamy, then surely Jan. 6, 2021 will be remembered as a day of equal ignominy, when we were invaded not by a foreign enemy but by ourselves. This attack has been long in the making. To be sure, the toxin injected […]
Posted inLakes Region Weekly
Inside Raymond: Jan. 8
Storefront story walk The new story stroll at the Raymond Shopping Center is ready for families to enjoy. This winter’s storefront story walk for kids features “A Snowy Day” by Ezra Jack Keats. The story starts at the Maine Dance Center and continues along the store windows all the way down to the final pages […]
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Letter to the editor: Pay hike, hazard bonus are hurting low-wage Portland workers
The increase in Portland’s minimum wage, combined with the hazard pay, is having the expected effect, at least by those who understand economics. Yes, some employees at the low end of the pay scale are making more, with $18 now being the minimum hourly pay. However, there are fewer workers because staff are being laid […]
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Letter to the editor: Time for Collins to reflect on impeachment vote
I wonder if Sen. Susan Collins still believes that President Trump learned “a pretty big lesson” from being impeached. Richard Lations Portland
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Federal judge orders Portland pandemic supply company to return customer’s deposit
Portland-based Noble Partners was accused of keeping a Florida company’s $108,000 deposit after failing to fulfill an order for medical supplies in May.
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Letter to the editor: McConnell is reaping what he sowed
He and his party lose control of the Senate after they spend years enabling an anti-democratic president.
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Letter to the editor: Maine’s old flag can symbolize climate action
On the same day the Press Herald reported that 2020 was Portland’s warmest year on record, the first of perhaps numerous objections to restoring Maine’s old state flag appeared here (“Letter to the editor: Legislature busy without flag bill,” by Richard Palombo, Jan. 5, Page A10). Here’s another way of looking at the flag restoration […]
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Letter to the editor: A landmark day in history, and a sad one
In my lifetime, the saddest day in America was Nov. 22, 1963. Then it was Sept. 11, 2001. Now it’s Jan. 6, 2021. Perhaps this violent tragedy and appalling desecration of our national Capitol might bring our country back together again, as did our past saddest days. Rev. Louis Phillips Windham
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