Recently, the Lewiston Auburn Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce endorsed Question 4 on the Nov. 6 ballot. There are 158,000 important reasons why. 158,000 is the number of additional workers with a post-secondary degree or credential that Maine employers will need by 2025. Even now, there are thousands of jobs in Maine that stand vacant, because […]
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Bringing North Korea to the nuclear point of no return
This week, South Korean President Moon Jae-in offered North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un another encouraging word. Moon said the crippling economic and political sanctions imposed on North Korea will begin to ease “when and if we decide the North’s denuclearization process has at least reached a point of no return…” Call that a word […]
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Democrats' smear of Kavanaugh sinks their own Senate chances
WASHINGTON — Just a few weeks ago, analysts thought that control of the U.S. Senate was in play this November and that momentum was shifting to the Democrats. Thanks to their brutal campaign of character assassination against now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh, those chances appear to be slipping away. Case in point is Tennessee, where Republican Rep. […]
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Transmission project a bad bet for Maine
Northern New England has an abundance of natural resources and open space, and it is relatively sparsely populated. Southern New England is the opposite. Maine and New Hampshire generate ample renewable electricity, while Southern New England wants and needs more and more of it. The states of Connecticut and Massachusetts have floated various concepts that […]
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GOP is running scared of young people
A word for young people, people of color and, in particular, young people of color: The Republicans are scared of you. Maybe you find that hard to believe. Maybe you wonder how the party can be scared of you — or of anybody — given that it controls all three branches of the federal government […]
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Khashoggi's apparent death sparks outrage
JERUSALEM — Major media are now reporting that the Saudis are “preparing” to admit that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a columnist for The Washington Post, died in their consulate in Istanbul, as the result of an interrogation gone wrong. Odds are good that admittance will never come. The Saudi’s response, whatever it is, will likely […]
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On global warming, it's mission impossible
WASHINGTON — If there were any doubt before, there should be none now. “Solving” the global climate change problem may be humankind’s mission impossible. That’s the gist of the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the United Nations group charged with monitoring global warming. Unless we make dramatic reductions in greenhouse […]
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Democrats turn their backs on civility
It’s doubtful that a former American presidential candidate has ever formally endorsed incivility before, but Hillary Clinton is ever full of surprises. In an interview on CNN, the erstwhile advocate of “if they go low, we go high” switched around to unapologetically call for going low. “You cannot be civil with a political party,” she […]
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Holidays should honor ideas not names
Whatever you were doing on Monday, it probably didn’t matter much to you that the day had been proclaimed Columbus Day. Or, Indigenous People’s Day. Or, Oct. 8, 2018. Whatever you call it, a survey back along showed the second Monday of October, proclaimed Columbus Day to honor an Italian sailing for the crown and […]
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Conservatives ignored William Nordhaus when he offered tools to fight global warming
The awarding of a Nobel prize in economics this week to William Nordhaus — the first economist to develop a model of how the climate and the global economy are linked – highlights a tremendous lost opportunity to fight climate change. Decades ago, Nordhaus’s work provided a set of tools that should have appealed to […]