The $1,400 direct checks to people are the most expensive and perhaps most popular part of the $1.9 trillion coronavirus relief package racing its way through Congress right now. The House is set to vote on a final version of the package narrowly passed by the Senate on March 6 before it moves on to […]
2021
Posted inMaine, News
More women than men are getting vaccinated, and the gender gap could persist
The divide reflects priority groups targeted by the vaccine rollout in Maine and across the nation, and it could remain if men don’t change their health care habits.
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Posted inTimes Record
Ron Chase: Quest for Katahdin Part II: The climbs
On the third day of our Baxter State Park expedition, a foot of fresh snowfall greeted seven of us when we awoke at the Chimney Pond bunkhouse in the shadow of Mount Katahdin. Led by my son, Adam, I was by far the senior citizen on the excursion. Since as much as two feet of […]
Posted inPortland Forecaster
Redevelopment on horizon for former pharmacy sites in Portland
The new owner of the former Rite Aid/Walgreens building at Forest and Ocean avenues intends to subdivide the building.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Falmouth resident’s support of teachers appreciated
As an educator who has taught in the Falmouth Schools for 20 years, I am deeply appreciative of Matthew Wolcott’s March 6 letter, in which he responds to recent Falmouth board meetings. For the March 1 meeting, educators were tasked with laying out for the School Board the implications of removing the virtual Wednesdays from […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Biden’s Rescue Plan sends aid where it’s needed
Millions of families, in Maine and across the country, can’t wait for a slow economic recovery to reach them.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: An admiral and a novelist want you to imagine a nuclear war with China
‘2034: A Novel of the Next World War’ is fiction that envisions how we could blunder into conflict with Beijing.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Virus keeps refusing to follow anyone’s partisan script
It ought to be clear, a year into the pandemic, that COVID-19 isn’t fake news and the U.S. isn’t a failed state.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: D.C. statehood is a civil rights issue
This is about enfranchising the more than 700,000 mostly Black and brown people who have waited centuries for representation in Congress.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Here’s Something: ‘Oh dear,’ cancel culture is a shame
We’ve seen financial bubbles in the stock market, housing market and bitcoin, but until recently we’ve never seen a bubble when it comes to classic children’s books. That all changed last week when six books written by the late, great Theodor Seuss Geisel – aka. Dr. Seuss – were targeted by his own publishing company, […]