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 31, 2021
Gordon Weil: Inflation? Welcome to ‘rate shock’
Electric power game rigged against customers
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PublishedDecember 31, 2021
Commentary: Tutu was a man of empathy, moral ardor, and some silly jokes
One Christmas Day in the 1980s, Desmond Tutu led a packed church service in Soweto, the Black Johannesburg township and fulcrum of protest against white racist rule in South Africa. An American family — mine — found standing room at the back. We were among the few white people in the congregation and, as we […]
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PublishedDecember 31, 2021
Giving Voice: Brunswick homeless shelter seeks public support for needed expansion
The outdoor temperature is 25 degrees and it is snowing steadily, adding a fresh coat of white on top of the inches of snow that have already accumulated on the ground in the last week. I am tucked inside my home, cozy with the thermostat cranked up to a balmy 72 degrees, and sipping a […]
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PublishedDecember 30, 2021
The Maine Idea: Tuning up for the greatest show of 2022
As friends know, I have gone out of the political prediction business, for now. The times through which we’re passing are too volatile, too uncertain, too bewildering for anyone to make out the electorate’s next move. Which only means that current forecasts of the outcome next November, repeated ad nauseum, are based on nothing more […]
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PublishedDecember 30, 2021
Tom Purcell: Hail to our everyday heroes
A recent Reddit thread discusses the lack of heroes in modern society, but the truth is we have plenty of heroes. It’s true that in the Internet era, historic figures we once considered heroic are being reevaluated as their past misdeeds and personal peccadilloes are revealed. Celebrities we once admired suffer a fall from grace […]
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PublishedDecember 30, 2021
Intertidal: Plenty of Maine seafood to be enjoyed during the winter
When I asked my daughter what I should write about for the last column of the year, she said, “write about a really big fish.” That reminded me of a conversation I had recently with a seafood purveyor about what’s in season and some of the misperceptions about when different species are harvested in Maine. […]
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PublishedDecember 29, 2021
Guest column: Making sure no Maine child goes hungry
During my time in the Legislature, one of the constants has been the agreement that we need to take care of Maine kids. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, every lawmaker in Augusta agrees that our children deserve to feel safe, have enough to eat, and have access to quality education. During […]
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PublishedDecember 29, 2021
Guest column: Defending Joe Manchin
In Washington, tax dollars get tossed around like Monopoly money, especially in times of crisis when politicians start talking about the need to expand the social safety net. During the worst parts of the pandemic, the political crowd couldn’t act fast enough to get money out the door, but they gave little to no thought […]
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PublishedDecember 29, 2021
Guest column: Pinch Me. It must be a bad dream
The Republicans have, in a move that is hard to appreciate even for profane political reasons, chosen a man many would consider a murderer as the unofficial head of their party. The former President of the United States, Donald Trump, and many of his associates and supporters, are responsible for thousands of deaths from COVID-19 […]
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PublishedDecember 29, 2021
From the Chamber: 2022 Preview – the year when it all changed
In this third and final part of our year-end recap, we turn our attention to 2022 and the transformative year it will be. Although we’ll have several new projects in 2022, I want to focus on just the two biggest ones this week. These two projects will quite literally change our organization more in one […]
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