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Editorials
Our View: No option in Trump dispute but to stick to the script
If this unbecoming fracas was about the law to begin with, it’s still about the law. No amount of duress changes that.
Our View: Local protest of White House actions can unite and clarify
Public demonstration offers us an ever more valuable opportunity to connect with others — and to get specific as possible.
Our View: ‘Whiplash and worry’ continues to plague Maine
It’s challenging to respond to the Trump administration’s destabilizing decisions and caprice. But we have to keep responding.
Our View: Did Maine Republicans misunderstand budget stakes?
How else do you make sense of such a stubborn refusal to reach a compromise?
Firefighters work at risk — for us. Every single day
Farmington Fire Chief Terry Bell Deputy Chief S. Clyde Ross Capt. Scott Baxter Capt. TD Hardy Firefighter Ted Baxter Firefighter Joe Hastings LEAP maintenance supervisor Larry Lord And, of course, Capt. Mike Bell. On Monday, each of these men went to work doing what they love, in a community they dearly love. Each of them […]
Our View: A city’s plan to turnaround a neighborhood
Lewiston is taking on crushing poverty, and other Maine communities should take notice.
Watchdog press bites back to protect access
Maine’s State House Facilities Committee, which oversees operation of the State House complex, voted Wednesday to recommend that the doors to the State House be locked and inaccessible to the press after hours, unless a scheduled meeting is underway or unless a reporter phones to request special permission to enter. The explanation was that public […]
A peek into this week – Feb. 13, 2014
There’s likely a long list of people who wish the nor’easter could be pushed ahead into the far future: sports teams, commuters, exhaust highway crews and their budget-strapped towns. On a much smaller list though, are people who’d hoped for it to come summer. Our top contender ? The eight suspects across Oxford County arrested […]
Chamber and SAD 17 link a natural fit
John Williams, executive director of the Oxford Hills Chamber of Commerce, loves to use exclamation points in his Chamber Beat column. With the recent news that SAD 17 has joined the Chamber, John can be pardoned for injecting one of the avid grammarian’s favorite features. According to Williams’ column on Page D4 in today’s Advertiser […]