Skowhegan blanks Brunswick, Gardiner softball rolls and Messalonskee girls lacrosse victorious.
Erica Nitschke
Columnist
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
View from Away: Will Iran follow Trump’s lead in reneging on the nuclear deal?
A year ago, President Donald Trump repudiated a painstakingly negotiated agreement under which Iran has placed significant limits on its nuclear program. The president confidently predicted that Iran’s leaders “are going to want to make a new and lasting deal, one that benefits all of Iran and the Iranian people.” As he usually does, Trump […]
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: For a better future in Maine, build solid foundations for children
A child’s home life, health, education and future well-being are all connected.
Posted inSports, Tennis, Uncategorized, Varsity Maine
Tennis: Maranacook and Mt. Blue lead wave of locals qualifying for singles tournament
Black Bears’ Dwyer and Wadsworth, Mt. Blue’s Marshall and Erskine’s Hodgkin among players moving on to Round of 48.
Posted inSports, Uncategorized, Varsity Maine
Local roundup: Hall-Dale softball comes alive in middle innings against Monmouth
Begin’s three hits help lead Bulldogs, now 7-1, to key MVC win over Mustangs.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Jay Ambrose: Yes, there really, truly is a crisis at the border
Can you believe it? Even The New York Times has come around to seeing there is a crisis at the southern border and it has to be addressed, which is to say, Democrats should give the Trump administration the $4.5 billion it has requested to deal with death, sickness and misery. This horror is afflicting […]
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
View from Away: Trump’s contempt for Congress is dangerous and self-serving
After special counsel Robert S. Mueller III filed his report on his investigation into possible ties between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia, the president hailed the report as a “total exoneration.” His attorney general has since released a redacted version of the document, which elicited a similar reaction from Trump. But now that Democrats in […]
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Our View: For-profit colleges need state oversight
The Trump administration has shown no interest in keeping a watch on this troubling industry.
Posted inSports, Varsity Maine
Local roundup: Erskine softball earns back-and-forth win over Maranacook
Maranacook/Winthrop girls lacrosse remains unbeaten; Cony baseball walks off Skowhegan.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
View from Away: Human activities could erase 1 million of our fellow species
It’s hard to imagine a more dire assessment of what we humans have done to the world than the 1,500-page United Nations report released Monday in Paris that says, among other things, that our collective activities have put some 1 million plant and animal species at risk of extinction, many within decades. While environmentalists and […]