Sept. 26 was the eighth anniversary of the Iguala Massacre (sometimes called the Ayotzinapa Teachers College massacre). The Iguala Massacre is a vicious crime become political cause that exemplifies the evil of “impunity.”

The trustees of the Donald M. Gay Scholarship Fund are proud to have a role in supporting the performing arts center and the wonderful experiences it will bring to future students and to the greater Lewiston-Auburn community.

Rebuilding after Ian should now be up to the people and their insurers. The bill for help beyond immediate emergency services ought not go to the taxpayers of Massachusetts and Nebraska. The 2013 Ron DeSantis was right about that.

California hasn’t created a railroad to the future but a warning to the rest of the country to avoid its delusion and folly.

It was enough to make you wonder if someone’s been tampering with the nation’s water supply. But that’s a dodge, isn’t it, the idea that this baseness, this sordid profanation of our common humanity, must be the product of something external?

If a judge and a growing number of people no longer recognize what many consider immorality, then immorality wins.

According to research by economists at Harvard University, Americans overstate the number of immigrants living in the United States by almost fourfold. They underestimate their education and employment rates, and overestimate both their poverty and the burden they impose on American taxpayers.

The great fear was that immigrants raised in an Old World culture of despotic monarchy, aristocratic privilege and the suppression of ideas could not be expected to uphold the democratic values of the American republic. The immigrants were instead thought to be the tools of corrupt and opportunistic demagogues. There was also the widespread belief that Catholics, bound by their allegiance to the pope, could not be loyal U.S. citizens.

More to the point, it understands that there is a market here. And if some LGBTQ folk are concerned by the commodification and merchandising of their identity, it’s nevertheless important to understand what the very fact of those processes suggests: that the battle for hearts and minds is over, and LGBTQ won.