An article about the need for upgrades to the grid suggests that the companies and their executives resist change that they can’t control.
2021
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
The Maine Millennial: Collins abandons her LGBTQ constituents
The senator has not explained her retreat on the Equality Act, a civil rights bill that has passed the House.
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Posted inFood, Green Plate Special, Recipes
This St. Patrick’s Day, brine your own corned beef – starting now
The process isn’t difficult but can take up to a week, so you better get cracking.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Review
Two wives are drawn together by an erotic undertow in the ultimately frustrating ‘Affair’
An interesting but ultimately frustrating struggle between form and content animates “The Affair,” an attractive but inert drama set in Czechoslovakia amid the most pivotal events of the 20th century. Hanna Alstrom and Carice van Houten play Liesel and Hana, best friends whose relationship possesses an undeniably erotic undertow, even after they’re both married. In […]
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Jim Fossel: Don’t use federal aid to grow Maine’s government
Republicans in Augusta should insist that COVID relief money is targeted to replace lost revenue, not to fund new programs.
Posted inArts & Entertainment
Keanu Reeves on the joy of writing his first comic book: ‘Why not? That sounds amazing!’
It was the fall of 2017, and Keanu Reeves had been carrying around a character in his head. The actor so associated with portraying a phalanx of dark-clad fighters kept envisioning a world-weary warrior whose birth predated even human language. Who knows, he thought, this character just might be a future film role. But that […]
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‘Coming 2 America’s’ Jermaine Fowler became a comedian because of Eddie Murphy – now he wants to make a name for himself
Fifteen years have passed, but the blank page is still seared into Jermaine Fowler’s memory. As an adrift student at Northwestern High School in Hyattsville, Maryland, Fowler was reluctantly filling out college applications when he faced an essay prompt about outlining his ambitions. His brain froze, and his eyes welled up. “I realized,” he says, […]
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Deep Water: ‘Afterlife,’ by Mihku Paul
Maine poems edited and introduced by Megan Grumbling.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books
Bedside Table: 2 books, 2 rivers (in Arizona and Maine) and 2 great tales
“I am reading ‘The Emerald Mile,’ by Kevin Fedarko. It’s about the history of expeditions that attempted to navigate the wild Colorado River that flows through the Grand Canyon. It wraps in the story of dams – like the Hoover Dam, which I visited with my family in 1967 – that were built to tame […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Books, Religion and Values
Anne Lamott reflects on the popularity of her spiritual books and how she became ‘a pretty decent writer’
Lamott’s latest, ‘Dusk Night Dawn,’ satisfies literary as well as spiritual tastes.