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PublishedAugust 16, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Confessions of a TikTok virgin
Street Talk: That's the thing about this whole explosion of communication services. If all the best sources are hanging out on one of those newfangled apps and webpages, I have to be there, too.
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PublishedAugust 8, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Today’s bug mystery: Giant mosquito? Or Maine mutant?
Street Talk: And so instead of dealing with shootings and car wrecks and tales of pain and woe at the end of the week, I spent my time on the tail of a menacing creature of unknown origin.
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PublishedAugust 1, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Prime rib in pill form, please
Street Talk: We've got supercomputers small enough to tuck into our pockets. We've got bug-looking cameras that fly around in the sky and we've got artificial intelligence writing term papers and composing music. All of that and yet no food in pill form to eliminate the need for inconvenient eating.
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PublishedJuly 18, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: The rock, the rattle and other works of Lewiston art
Street Talk: It remains to be seen if the people of Lewiston will ever grow to love "the rock" in Kennedy Park like they've grown to love the zebra on the Canal Street parking garage.
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PublishedJuly 12, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: There are ghosts walking among us
Street Talk: Unsolved deaths of a suspicious nature are specters that gnaw at the collective memories of the community. They haunt and haunt and haunt.
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PublishedJuly 5, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: An identity stolen and not a soul to help
Street Talk: The biggest horror of them all in this sordid affair is that there seems to be no one in the world at all able or willing to extricate Riley from the ongoing nightmare.
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PublishedJune 28, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Suicide’s unwitting players have to live with the trauma
Street Talk: I'll never understand why a person would want to end his own suffering by inflicting suffering upon another.
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PublishedJune 20, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: Do you want to be an award-winning reporter? Write this down.
Street Talk: One-on-one interviews may not be the meat and potatoes of a news story, but they are definitely the carrots and peas.
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PublishedJune 5, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: What to yell in a crowded theater?
Street Talk: Fire is one of the most powerful forces on earth and yet, at best, we have two synonyms suitable for use when writing about it.
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PublishedMay 16, 2023
Mark LaFlamme: A former ‘putz’s’ graduation lament
Street Talk: After graduation, I spent eight or nine years just wandering in kind of a shabby, hedonistic daze.
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