Nearly 48 years ago, President Gerald Ford granted a “full, free and absolute pardon to Richard Nixon,” shielding the former president from prosecution for conspiring to cover up the break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in the Watergate office complex in 1972. According to the document signed by Ford, the pardon covered “all offenses […]
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John Micek: With Ukraine war, GOP finds religon on democracy
Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.), who once advised President Donald Trump’s White House on undermining the 2020 election results, and who was a target of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, has now found a democracy worth defending. It’s in Kyiv. Taking to Twitter on Sunday, Perry denounced […]
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Women’s basketball: Albany defeats UMaine, 56-47, in America East title game
The Great Danes earn the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA tournament after getting off to a fast start against the Black Bears.
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David Treadwell: Honoring deceased veterans with flags
Memorial Days in Parkersburg, West Virginia in the mid-1950s were a big deal for me. I was in the Boy Scouts, and our troop always marched in the annual Memorial Day Parade, along with veterans, members of civic organizations and assorted town poohbahs. We were led by the majestic Big Red Marching Band, the Parkersburg […]
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Commentary: Ukraine’s Twitter account is a national version of real-time trauma processing
TikToks of cats in cardboard tanks. Flirty comments on Instagram accounts dedicated to Vladmir Putin, begging him to stop Russia’s attacks on Ukraine. Memes bemoaning what it’s like to live during a pandemic and war. Memes, cats and TikToks are central features of contemporary internet culture. And sometimes, internet culture is all three at the […]
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Gordon Weil: Fighting for Ukraine but avoiding war
American consumer becomes today’s soldier.
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Guest column: Mid Coast Hospital director a community leader in uncertain times
It was February break week after two long years of COVID and I had the joy of taking my youngest daughter, Juliet, to see some colleges today. She will be 17 very soon — although it seems like yesterday that she was still swaddled in my arms. She’s a junior in high school now and […]
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Letter: Utility accountability bill won’t work
Consumers are furious about the poor reliability and high cost of electricity delivered by CMP and Versant. Gov. Janet Mills has proposed a bill (LD 1959) that is intended to improve the situation and make all electric utilities accountable to the public. The bill does not accomplish those goals and has major shortcomings. The bill […]
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Guest column: Pessimistic hope is not an oxymoron — in preserving democracy and all other endeavors
As a dyed-in-the-wool pessimist, I rarely see the glass as half full. So when a young colleague told me I have “radical hope,” I thought she had mistakenly sent me an email meant for another. She proclaimed this upon my helping her escape a toxic work environment — her first professional position — intact. There, […]
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Tom Purcell: Old family photos bring new perspective
My mother and father keep our old photos in their hall closet in a sturdy old Pabst Blue Ribbon box. Sifting through old photos is a glorious experience — one, we now know, that relieves aches and pains by calming the brain, according to a recent study. The last time I looked through the box […]