John Swinconeck is the executive editor of The Times Record, The Forecaster group, American Journal and Lakes Region Weekly. He has spent most of his journalistic career covering local news in Maine. When not working he enjoys collecting cheap guitars, cooking and spending time with his wife and kids. He lives in Bath. He is a graduate of the University of Southern Maine.
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PublishedDecember 4, 2020
Guest column: Getting back to Paris: Our climate challenge
The 2015 Paris Climate Accord, signed by 190 nations, set a target of limiting long term global warming to 1.5-2 degrees Celsius. With the United States playing a lead role, the signatories committed to develop action plans for reducing their greenhouse gases (g.h.g.) and rich nations committed massive support for “green development” in poorer regions. […]
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PublishedDecember 4, 2020
Your Land: Lit-tree season
Every so often, when I’m walking in local woods as the season shuts down toward solstice, I come upon a decorated tree. Usually, it’s a fir of some ilk, though a few times I’ve found baubles on a short, bare-limbed maple. And twice now, a fir has been strung with a few strands of lights. […]
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PublishedDecember 4, 2020
Jonathan Crimmins: Dunlap’s qualifications as Auditor questionable
If I ran a local tap room and I was looking for someone to make sure that my books were on the up and up I would look for someone who was well-schooled in the principles of accounting. Someone who had a background in numbers and the upkeep of my accounts. If I sat on […]
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PublishedDecember 4, 2020
Gordon Weil: Divided government a failed myth
Divided government – each party controlling part of the government – seems appealing. It could produce compromise and block extreme policies. But divided government is a failed myth. Its virtues are elusive, and it often produces stalemate. Look at the federal government and Maine. In October, President Trump passed a full year, one quarter of […]
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PublishedDecember 4, 2020
Guest column: Remembering Max Dawson
My first job out of college was as a reporter at The Times Record. I worked with veteran journalists – many whom have left the newspaper industry or since retired. I was fortunate to be one of two reporters who worked out of the Bath bureau, which was then located on Commercial Street. Jim McCarthy […]
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PublishedDecember 3, 2020
Midcoast Literacy to present free Readers Theater online
Midcoast Literacy, a non-profit organization that provides free literacy tutoring to people of all ages, announces a free, live Readers Theater performance of two children’s books to be streamed online. The event will be held one time only on Saturday, Dec. 12, at 7 p.m. It will feature local professional actors reading “Lilly’s Purple Plastic […]
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PublishedDecember 3, 2020
Tom Purcell: Finding the good in our grief with Charlie Brown
Good grief. It surprised me how sad I was that “A Charlie Brown Christmas” would no longer air on broadcast television. I felt like I’d lost a chunk of my childhood. In October, Apple TV+ acquired the rights to all “Peanuts” holiday specials including “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” A great hue and cry resulted. An […]
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PublishedDecember 3, 2020
Intertidal: Thoughts on the holiday
I definitely ate too much turkey last week. In an effort to subdivide the classic Thanksgiving meal into only four parts rather than the usual dozen or so, our family consumed a lot of that strange large bird that has become the signature of the day’s feast. Perhaps we would all feel better if we […]
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PublishedDecember 3, 2020
Commentary: The morality of canceling student debt
President-elect Joe Biden promised to forgive at least some student debt during his campaign, and he now supports immediately canceling US$10,000 per borrower as part of COVID-19 relief measures. Such proposals are likely to be quite popular. A poll from 2019 found that 58% of voters support canceling all federal student debt. But there are […]
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PublishedDecember 2, 2020
Embrace A Vet receives $17K grant
Embrace A Vet has received a grant from the Disabled Veterans National Foundation (DVNF) for $17,000. Embrace A Vet is a Brunswick-based nonprofit founded in 2012 to help Maine veterans living with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Over the past eight years, it has developed a program that addresses the needs of veterans who benefit from having […]
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