The air is turning colder, the days are shorter, and people are once again preparing to spend more time indoors. It’s also time for Thanksgiving, when we gather with our family and friends, reunite with loved ones, and share in all that we have to be grateful for. It can be so easy to fall […]
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2021 high school golf wrapup: Freeport Eli Spaulding turns in strong fall with Class B title
Brunswick, Mt. Ararat and Freeport all enjoyed successful seasons as well.
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Commentary: Rittenhouse verdict flies in the face of legal standards for self-defense
In a two-week trial that reignited debate over self-defense laws across the nation, a Wisconsin jury acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse for shooting three people, two fatally, during a racial justice protest in Kenosha. The Wisconsin jury believed Rittenhouse’s claims that he feared for his life and acted in self-defense after he drove about 20 miles from […]
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Guest column: Carbon tax, other changes could be way out of climate pickle
In his recent Times Record column “High Costs Slow Climate Change Efforts” (Nov. 19), Gordon Weil correctly identifies the difficulty in enacting effective policies to combat climate change. Mitigating emissions is costly because energy from fossil fuels is cheaper than the climate-friendly energy from nuclear and renewables. Today’s voters and politicians resist those costs because […]
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Winter sports return with opening day of practice for many teams
After not having season in 2020, wrestlers were excited to get back on the mats again.
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Commentary: Got $1.2T to invest in roads and other infrastructure? Here’s how to figure out how to spend it wisely
Road networks carry traffic and freight; the internet and telecommunications networks carry our voices and digital information; the electricity grid is a network carrying energy; financial networks transfer money from bank accounts to merchants. These networks are vast, often global systems – but a local disruption can really block them up. For example, the I-85 […]
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Dick Polman: Chris Christie’s rehabilitation humiliation
If Bill Murray were to star in a sequel to Groundhog Day, he’d wake up to the Sonny and Cher alarm clock, take the cold shower, step in the puddle, parry the insurance agent, trudge to the gazebo…and see Chris Christie doing his same old song and dance. Seriously, him again? Didn’t this guy end […]
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Commentary: Infrastructure law: High-speed internet is as essential as water and electricity
The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Actsigned into law by President Joe Biden on Nov. 15, 2021, was hailed by the White House and advocates as a historic investment to improve internet access in America. As a researcher who studies internet policy and digital inequality, I believe the infrastructure plan should be celebrated as a historic […]
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Gordon Weil: High costs slow climate change efforts
The weak agreement at last week’s Glasgow climate change summit and double-digit rate increases for power and its delivery in the bills of Maine’s largest electric utilities have a lot in common. They both showed that fighting climate change faces daunting obstacles, and it comes at great cost. Facing entrenched economic interests, the U.N. summit […]
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Guest column: When Thanksgiving and Christmas collide
These days, we’re all used to walking through retail stores in October and dodging Christmas displays of inflatable Baby Yoda yard art while we’re still trying to find the perfect Halloween pumpkins to decompose on our front porches. The real holiday season mashup controversy, though, emerges in November, when we try to determine when it’s […]