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PublishedApril 12, 2024
Giving Voice: Seeing the ‘unseen’
In many ways, Brunswick is a prototypical New England college town. The respected and highly thought-of Bowdoin College sits on the hill, spreading the aura of learning and sophistication over the landscape. At the other end of Maine Street sits the old mill buildings rescued from the scrap heap of history, contributing to the local […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2024
Sustainable Practice: What will Earth Day 2079 look like?
April 22, 2024, will be the 55th Earth Day. Let’s compare where we were on our sustainability journey in 1970, where we are in 2024, and where we’re headed for 2079 when we will have celebrated 55 more Earth Days. In 1970, we filled our cars with leaded fuel; we mixed lead into “regular” gasoline […]
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PublishedApril 12, 2024
Gordon L. Weil: Why Trump gets support
Donald Trump is a lucky person. His social media website goes public, and he gains a bonanza worth billions. He is indicted for crimes and with each new charge, he seems to become more popular. He holds a campaign fundraiser and rakes in tens of millions of dollars from billionaires, even though some of that […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2024
Elwood Watson: Defending higher education against cynical politics
Thanks to the so-called culture wars, debates about events on college campuses are being employed as useful weapons for attacking the gradual democratization that has occurred in higher education since the 1950s. Those of us who are academics and see education as crucial should be alarmed at the specter of partisan attacks, not to mention […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2024
Letters to the Editor: Popular vote; Guzzetti for Senate; displaced ospreys
The overstep of the popular vote Once again, Democrats in Augusta are falling in line with the other blue states in an attempt to rectify what they perceive as an injustice in the 2016 presidential election. Our Founding Fathers established the Electoral College system in electing the president so that larger states would not dominate […]
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PublishedApril 11, 2024
Guest column: Development. What is it, really?
First the immediate natural environment, a sanctuary for life is disrupted, the trees are cut, the soil is dug up and altered, smaller plants and organisms are destroyed, all elements of the environment that have been established are ruined. This affects bird life, necessary insects, butterflies and other creatures, such as deer, squirrels and it […]
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PublishedApril 10, 2024
Tom Purcell: A good month to prevent distracted driving
“It wasn’t my fault the car in front of me hit me. I glanced at my text message for only a second when our bumpers collided.” “How could the car in front of you hit you?” “The idiot stopped to let a deer cross the street — and dented my front bumper with his rear […]
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PublishedApril 10, 2024
The Maine Idea: Something universal in the eclipse moment
I’ve not often driven north in recent years, but a total eclipse seemed more than enough reason. A friend recently relocated to Guilford after summering there for years, and that became the destination. It’s just down the road from Dover-Foxcroft, shire town of Piscataquis County. With plenty of local knowledge, we headed west, passing a […]
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PublishedApril 10, 2024
From the Chocolate Church: A busy weekend of art galleries and folk
An art gallery opening in the Annex Friday night, April 12, and an illustrated music performance on the main stage Saturday night, April 13 are on tap this weekend at the Chocolate Church Arts Center in Bath. The gallery opening is from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Friday. Saturday night’s show begins at 7:30 p.m. The […]
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PublishedApril 9, 2024
The Conversation: From Reagan to Obama, presidents have left office with ‘strategic regret’ — will leaving troops in Iraq and Syria be Biden or Trump’s?
THE CONVERSATION — U.S. presidents often leave the White House expressing “strategic regret” over perceived foreign policy failures. Lyndon Johnson was haunted by the Vietnam War. Bill Clinton regretted the failed intervention in Somalia and how the “Black Hawk Down” incident contributed to his administration’s inaction over the Rwandan genocide. Barack Obama said the Libyan intervention was “the worst mistake” of […]
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