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 16, 2021
The Maine Idea: Unvaccinated Mainers need help, not contempt
By now, the storyline, and the statistics, are almost mind-numbingly familiar. In rural counties of Maine, as in those of neighboring states, COVID rates have gone off the charts amid the worst wave of the pandemic. Hospitals are overwhelmed, health networks are overstretched and the National Guard has been called out. Yet we haven’t focused […]
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PublishedDecember 15, 2021
Senate passes defense bill with potential benefits for BIW
The annual national defense act authorizes three new Navy warships that Bath Iron Works could bid on.
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PublishedDecember 15, 2021
Commentary: ‘Strangers in their own land’: Iraqi Yazidis and their plight, 7 years on from genocide
Each year in the second week of December, Iraqi Yazidis, an ethnoreligious minority in northern Iraq, celebrate Rojiet Ezi, a festival that follows three days of fasting. During my ethnographic fieldwork in a refugee camp in Iraqi Kurdistan in 2019, I witnessed how this festival brings joy to the displaced Yazidis as they celebrate with […]
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PublishedDecember 15, 2021
Dick Polman: Democrats have failed to protect abortion rights
So it looks like Roe v. Wade is perched at the precipice. Gee, I wonder how that happened. Let me count the ways. Conservative Republicans started prioritizing a high court takeover, with the explicit aim of ending legal abortion, more than 40 years ago. In 1980, Ronald Reagan’s GOP introduced new language in its party […]
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PublishedDecember 15, 2021
From the Chamber: Predicting our future: A five-year look ahead
This is the first in a three-part series to recap what happened this year, and preview what is to come in 2022. Next week I’ll share some interesting facts and figures about 2021, and follow that up the week after with a look at how 2022 will become a truly transformational year for our chamber […]
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PublishedDecember 14, 2021
Brunswick nonprofit receives grant to support affordable housing initiatives and community facilities in Maine, New Hampshire
The Brunswick-based Genesis Fund was awarded an $825,000 grant from the Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) Fund at the U.S. Treasury Department. The CDFI Program invests in and builds the capacity of CDFIs to serve low-income people and underserved communities lacking adequate access to affordable financial products and services. The Genesis Fund’s award provides loan […]
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PublishedDecember 13, 2021
John Micek: What should happen if abortion returns to the states?
To say there’s a lot riding on the U.S. Supreme Court’s eventual ruling in a case challenging Mississippi’s restrictive abortion ban is a galactic understatement. If, as currently appears the case, the court effectively topples Roe v. Wade, the 1973 precedent that declared a constitutional right to abortion, regulation of the practice would return to […]
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PublishedDecember 13, 2021
Carl Golden: Republicans in disarray
When Republican victories narrowed the partisan gap in the House of Representatives to eight seats in 2020 (221-213) and followed it this year by prevailing in the Virginia gubernatorial race, the party was positively ecstatic about its ever-brightening future and enormously enhanced odds of winning Congressional control in the 2022 midterms. With those gains in […]
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PublishedDecember 12, 2021
Rolling blackouts possible this winter, regional grid warns
Rolling blackouts may hit New England if there’s an extended cold snap this winter, as the regional power grid operator warns of a “precarious” situation due to snags in the natural gas supply. Much of the grid’s power comes from burning natural gas, and right now that fuel is in shorter-than-normal supply and is subject […]
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PublishedDecember 10, 2021
Gordon Weil: Much rides on Court’s abortion decision
Abortion has again arrived at the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue boils down to whether the Court will abandon its Roe v. Wade ruling that abortion is a federally protected right and leave the issue to the states. Its decision could place abortion at the center of next year’s political campaigns. Abortion may be the […]
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