In his ongoing attacks on what he describes as “woke politics,” Florida governor Ron DeSantis has denied permission for an AP African American History course to be taught in Florida public high schools. NAACP Director Ivory Toldson condemned the course’s rejection, calling DeSantis’ decision a “dereliction of his duty to ensure equitable education for all […]
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Letter to the editor: The PFAS Brunswick really needs to worry about
As a resident of Brunswick, I have been struck by the care and attention the Town of Brunswick is making regarding the concerns for the presence of PFAS in the artificial turf installation proposed by Bowdoin College. However, there is a much greater PFAS problem facing the town that has not been given similar attention. […]
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Joe Guzzardi: Interior Department’s misguided ‘Restoring America’ program
A week after Joe Biden became president, he signed Executive Order 14008, which announced his commitment to protect 30 percent of U.S. land and water – 41.5 million acres per year – by 2030. On May 6, 2021, the Department of the Interior published “Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful,” a preliminary report about what’s […]
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Phil Kerpen: Biden’s second student loan bailout scheme is even worse
President Joe Biden isn’t waiting for the Supreme Court to decide on his last $400 billion student loan bailout before rolling out another, even more costly plan (oral arguments are scheduled for Feb. 28, and it has been blocked by lower courts for now.) Biden’s new plan to force taxpayers to pay for other people’s […]
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The Conversation: How flood forecasting in real time, with block-by-block data, could save lives
THE CONVERSATION — The extreme flooding and mudslides across California in recent weeks took many drivers by surprise. Sinkholes swallowed cars, highways became fast-moving rivers of water, entire neighborhoods were evacuated. At least 20 people died in the storms, several of them after becoming trapped in cars in rushing water. As I checked the forecasts on my cellphone […]
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Giving Voice: How Mid Coast Hunger Prevention makes its food do the most good
Food donations to Mid Coast Hunger Prevention Program come in all shapes and sizes, ranging from a pallet of in-season excess from a farm partner to boxes of items pulled from retail partners’ shelves to a can of soup delivered by a neighbor. In order for as much good as possible to be done with […]
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Judith Selzer: Death of Roe v. Wade sparked generation of abortion rights advocates
This Jan. 22, we should be celebrating the 50th anniversary of Roe v. Wade. Instead, our country is confronting a stark reality in which younger generations have fewer rights than the last and one in three Americans no longer have the right to safe, legal abortion in their home state. Anti-abortion forces want us to […]
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Carl Golden: Biden hands Trump a political gift
A constant in the political universe is the quest to occupy the moral high ground, that space that sets apart those with noble intentions and pure motives from those driven by craven desires in pursuit of personal gains. Unfortunately, the fall from the rarefied air floating above the moral high ground is steep, and the landing can […]
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Gordon L. Weil: Five people could control dollar’s role
Five people hold in their hands the fate of the dollar as the world’s standard currency. If they can do that, they could go a long way to boosting China in its competition with the U.S. They may also force the federal government into a partial shutdown. It won’t be able to keep its commitments […]
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Barbara S. Held: How Kevin McCarthy is playing out of his psychological league, contrary to popular opinion
Move over, Donald. Kevin McCarthy has now replaced you as political pundits’ favorite object of amateur psychoanalytic musings. After psychologically scrutinizing McCarthy’s every move in his self-debasing, unprincipled concession-laden bid to be House Speaker, they’ve declared McCarthy’s “victory” to be pyrrhic. Pundits emphasize the ungovernability of fractured House Republicans, especially given McCarthy’s cave-to the-Freedom-Caucus weaknesses. […]