Put your hands together for gun reform activist Ashbey Beasley, an anguished mom who showed up uninvited on Fox News the other day. She stormed within camera range and raged common sense to the viewers who’d probably tuned in for the usual brain-dead propaganda. She and her son had survived last summer’s massacre in Highland […]
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The Conversation: Trump’s indictment stretches U.S. legal system in new ways — a former prosecutor explains 4 key points to understand
When former President Donald Trump turns himself over to authorities in New York on Tuesday, April 4, 2023, and is arraigned, the charges on which a Manhattan grand jury indicted him will likely be made public. Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg obtained the indictment on March 30, 2023, following a grand jury vote, but the exact charges […]
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Gary B. Anderson: Litigating the war in Ukraine
Virtually every aspect of Putin’s “Special Military Operation” has been a war crime. The invasion itself is a defined war crime of aggression. The sabotage of the Nord Stream pipelines is an act of terrorism possibly perpetrated by the U.S. and Norway. Whether it’s a war crime is even less clear-cut. According to the International […]
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Gordon L. Weil: One lawsuit against Trump could easily succeed
Donald Trump’s Stormy Daniels hush money case has been getting prime media attention, but it matters far less than one potential federal case that could expose him to great legal jeopardy. Some cases Trump faces may be relatively minor, hard to prove or purely political, but his holding onto presidential documents places him in what […]
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Just a Little Old: A dramatization of the GOP political divide
The Cast: Evie: An evangelical Christian from a small town in Oklahoma. Originally drawn to Donald Trump because he promised to appoint anti-abortion judges. Now she’s all in. Three MAGA hats. House filled with Trump paraphernalia. Has attended many Trump rallies and several CPAC conventions. Watches Fox News and doesn’t trust any other media. Norm: […]
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Sen. Eloise Vitelli: Equal representation creates a more equal society
Our democracy is made stronger when more people, with a wide variety of perspectives and experiences, can make their voices heard. The baseline for this is the right to vote. But representation among elected leadership is just as important. When we have school boards, town councils and state legislatures that reflect the populations they represent, […]
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The Maine Idea: Post office still stuck in neutral
It’s been four months since we last looked at the good old post office, as I prefer to call it, and things here got worse before they finally got better. The trough came in February when, on our rural route, the mail failed to arrive three consecutive days, and on the fourth – weirdly – […]
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The Conversation: SVB’s newfangled failure fits a century-old pattern of bank runs, with a social media twist
THE CONVERSATION — The failure of Silicon Valley Bank on March 10, 2023, came as a shock to most Americans. Even people like myself, a scholar of the U.S. banking system who has worked at the Federal Reserve, didn’t expect SVB’s collapse. Usually banks, like all companies, fail after a prolonged period of lackluster performance. But SVB, the […]
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Carl Golden: Trump is right where he wants to be
He’s rude, crude, profane and insulting. He pins derogatory nicknames on his opponents, often ridiculing their physical characteristics. He accuses the media of corruption and “an enemy of the people.” He’s under ongoing Federal and state investigations into allegations of criminal behavior and stands in the shadow of an indictment. And, as Americans prepare to […]
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Letters to the editor: The right to die; CMP’s future
The right to die On March 15, The Times Record ran an op-ed piece by Christine Flowers which, in my opinion, belonged in the religion section. “Euthanasia may be seen as a form of kindness, but it’s not” is a Catholic’s rejection of a proposed Pennsylvania “death with dignity” bill working its way through that […]
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