Joe Guzzardi: GOP pins hopes on ‘commitment to America’

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September 30, 2022

Joe Guzzardi: GOP pins hopes on ‘commitment to America’

With seven weeks remaining before the 2022 midterm election, Republicans and Democrats have drawn their battle lines and staked out what each party considers their opponents’ political vulnerabilities. Last week, the Republicans released what it called a “Commitment to America” that included many oft-made, unfulfilled promises to its base. GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy […]
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September 30, 2022

All that jazz: Jazz series comes to Freeport’s Meetinghouse Arts

Meetinghouse Arts will host a concert featuring internationally acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Laszlo Gardony on Oct. 8. Gardony is considered one of the most impressive and technically skilled pianists working in jazz today. “A formidable improviser who lives in the moment” according to the JazzTimes, he has performed in 27 countries and released 13 […]
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September 30, 2022

The Giving Voice: Time for Tedford Housing to get a leg up

A few days ago, at the high school where I work, I bumped into a student carrying an armload of snacks from the social workers’ Free Cart down the hall. Anticipating a scolding, the student looked me in the eye and flatly asked, “Can I take these home to share with my family?” Their no-nonsense […]
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September 30, 2022

David Treadwell: Sen. Collins, your slips are showing

Senator Collins, we need to have a talk. You keep making errors in judgment, oblivious to your past mistakes. Let me explain. After President Trump’s first impeachment trial, you suggested that he had learned his lesson. Poppycock. Anyone who’s followed Trump’s lifelong habit of conning and lying knows that he is incorrigible. He blusters and […]
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September 30, 2022

Blues, soul singer Shemekia Copeland to perform at Chocolate Church

Award-winning blues and soul singer Shemekia Copeland takes the stage at the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath on Fri., Oct. 7 at 7:30 p.m. Copeland is known worldwide for the fearlessness, honesty and humor of her music, and for delivering each song with unmatched passion. Winner of the 2021 Blues Music Award for B.B. […]
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September 30, 2022

Gordon L. Weil: Voter suppression in high gear for 2022 elections

Once upon a time, giant airplanes landed on an isolated and poor Pacific island, bringing wondrous gifts, yielding the Cargo Cult. Suddenly, during World War II, the American military arrived. A landing field was quickly laid out and aircraft flew in clothing and food the islanders had never seen. The cargo was military, but the […]
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September 30, 2022

Rep. Allison Hepler: Lobster fishery faces more risks

Lobster fishing has never been an easy way to make a living. Any economic endeavor that relies on natural forces and harvesting natural resources carries risk and uncertainties. As someone who represents coastal communities and as a member of the Legislature’s Marine Resources Committee, I’ve learned this firsthand from the hard-working men and women in […]
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September 29, 2022

Brunswick, Bath families create welcoming packages for refugees, former inmates

Between now and mid-November, families of children in faith formation in the Brunswick area are creating welcome-home packages for families with refugee status or formerly incarcerated members returning home. The packages for the refugee families contain a favorite meal recipe, a snack, a children’s book, a game, a family portrait drawn by the child, and […]
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September 29, 2022

Douglas Rooks: Bureaucratic delays cut both ways on climate

One of the more interesting items still kicking around Congress is Sen. Joe Manchin’s bill described as “permitting reform,” which sounds boring, but is anything but. Rather, it involves an issue of huge consequence: Whether we can rise to the challenge of climate change, or whether we will keep delaying needed infrastructure. In most news […]
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September 29, 2022

Tom Purcell: Hey Congress, quit fiddling with our clocks

With the “fall back” clock change coming soon, one thing makes me especially grumpy and confused. Last March, the Senate passed a bill that would make daylight saving time a year-round standard and end the “fall back” and “spring forward” clock changes that make Americans even groggier and crabbier than we usually are. But the […]

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