The Maine Idea: Ukraine a defining issue for 2024

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June 1, 2023

The Maine Idea: Ukraine a defining issue for 2024

Was everybody as bored by the debt limit “crisis” as I was? This alleged drama, covered wall-to-wall by every major news outlet incessantly for days on end, was always headed for a predictable and undramatic ending. President Biden made some minor and fleeting concessions to the fact of a (tiny) Republican majority in the House, […]
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June 1, 2023

Tom Purcell: Americans rediscover the summer picnic

It’s a positive trend that I hope continues: the resurgence of summer picnics. According to Mental Floss, the COVID pandemic caused a picnic boom beginning in 2020 that is showing no signs of letting up. In 2020, with restaurants shuttered and experts telling us the bug didn’t spread so easily in outdoor air, many people, […]
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May 31, 2023

Celtic group Gaelic Storm takes stage in Boothbay Harbor

Celtic music supergroup Gaelic Storm will return to the historic Boothbay Harbor Opera House on Friday, June 9. The group, perhaps best known for its performance in the movie “Titanic” during the dancing scene, has been performing since 1996, playing more than 2,000 shows. This laid the groundwork for a career that would eventually find […]
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May 31, 2023

Bowdoin International Music Festival announces 2023 schedule

The Bowdoin International Music Festival returns this June for its 59th season presenting world-renowned classical musicians. The festival will produce nearly 100 performances over six weeks, June 26 to Aug. 4, including daily free concerts. The festival’s summer institute runs alongside public performances, bringing to Maine 275 young musicians selected through an increasingly competitive admissions […]
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May 31, 2023

From the Chocolate Church: Bluegrass, folk performers to put on outdoor show at Bath museum

The sounds of bluegrass and folk music will fill the outdoors on the grounds of the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath on Sunday, June 11, when the Chocolate Church presents Erica Brown and The Bluegrass Connection at 6 p.m. This marks the third year concerts have been held outside on the grounds of the museum, […]
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May 31, 2023

The Conversation: Voters want compromise in Congress — so why the brinkmanship over the debt ceiling?

THE CONVERSATION — There’s progress on the debt limit. There’s no progress. Conservatives have revolted. Liberal Democrats are angry. Negotiators actually ate a meal together. That’s a good sign. No it isn’t. Who’s up? Who’s down? Much of the breathless news coverage of the debt limit crisis relies on leaks, speculation, wishful thinking and maybe […]
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May 30, 2023

Michael Reagan: Memories of Memorial Day

What are you doing to celebrate Memorial Day? How will you honor the soldiers, sailors and airmen who made the ultimate sacrifice to keep America safe, free and great for more than 240 years? My son Cameron, as usual, will take his daughters to a military cemetery and remind them who those fallen soldiers were […]
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May 30, 2023

Dick Polman: The Republican presidential contest is getting awfully crowded

If my math is correct, the 2024 Republican presidential contest is starting to look like the Marx brothers’ stateroom scene. Right now, I count nine or 10 active or explorative candidates: criminal defendant/convicted sexual abuser Donald Trump, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott, ex-South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, Gov. Ron DeSantis of DeSantistan, former Arkansas Gov. […]
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May 19, 2023

Gordon L. Weil: Trump and the politics of the Big Lie

Because Adolf Hitler ruled so far below civilized bounds, it may seem unfair to say anybody else is like him. But some people continue to use his strategies. In Germany, when Hitler came to power after his Nazi Party won a minority election victory in 1933, some believed he would fade at the next elections. […]
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May 19, 2023

Former Penoboscot Nation chief brings art of basketmaking to Brunswick students

The former chief of the Penobscot Nation will bring the art of basketmaking to Brunswick students as part of the Arts are Elementary program in May and June. The longtime educator and cultural preservationist will lead a free public forum from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Monday, May 22, in the Morrell Room at the Curtis […]