In an unusual development, the National Transportation Safety Board is reviewing the crash that killed 5-year-old Simon Gonzalez Tuesday.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Gray discusses preparing growth ordinances for new housing law
The Town Council weighed how to rework Gray’s ordinances to comply with LD 1829, which goes into effect July 1.
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Posted inLife & Culture, Maine, News
Move over, Santa. In Maine and elsewhere, Krampus is coming to town.
Is America finally embracing the frightening and long-shunned Alpine European folk legend?
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Janet Mills puts ICE cold ambition on display | Jim Fossel
The governor’s political hopes factored into the decision to let the bill limiting police cooperation with federal immigration authorities to become law.
Posted inElections, Maine, News, Politics
How Graham Platner’s complicated past shapes his run for U.S. Senate
A war is being waged to define the combat veteran, oyster farmer and U.S. Senate candidate from Sullivan.
Posted inLife & Culture, Maine
How did Caribou, Maine, get its name? We may never know.
Why the Aroostook County city was named for an animal now extinct in the state remains something of a mystery.
Posted inMaine, News
Toy Fund helps grandparents raising kids amid illness, loss and homelessness
Many Maine grandparents serving as caregivers are seeking help from the Toy Fund, which provides books and gifts for thousands of kids each year.
Posted inLetters
Lewiston made the right call on AI data center | Letter
What a pleasant surprise to see the headline, “Lewiston votes down AI data center after public outcry” (Dec. 17). But I probably should not have been surprised. Data Center Watch, an organization that tracks public opposition to large AI data centers, notes on its website that $64 billion of these projects in the United States […]
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Questions swirl around Trump’s AI efforts | Letter
Policy makers have a lot to consider on the president’s artificial intelligence project.
Posted inLetters
Unpack AI and media bias | Letter
Consider what AI samples before assuming the summary it provides is without bias. Media is biased, including the frequency with which certain views points are presented. AI samples this. AI does not validate what it finds, it presents the most popular viewpoints as though they are fact. Sometimes the truth is unpopular. AI is not […]