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2020
Posted inLetters, Opinion
David Richmond: Seeking help for homeless veterans is the first step to receiving it
Winter is here, and as temperatures drop, we are reminded of the harsh reality that more than 100 Maine veterans do not have a place to call home. While the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services and our many partners are doing everything possible to locate permanent housing for veterans in need, we need the community’s […]
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Posted inAdvice, bPlus, Dear Abby
Dear Abby: Mom’s meddling may have changed her life
DEAR ABBY: Parents frequently write to you asking for advice about their children, seemingly asking permission to butt in where they should not. When I was in my 20s, I dated a guy who had just returned from the Navy. I saw him — and others — while working and going to college. Sometimes I’d […]
Posted inAdvice, bPlus, Horoscope
Eugenia Last, Cancer: Let imagination take you on an exciting journey
CELEBRITIES BORN ON THIS DAY: Zayn Malik, 27; Naya Rivera, 33; Oliver Platt, 60; Kirstie Alley, 69. Happy Birthday: Don’t rule out what’s happened or who you have associated with in the past. Consider who and what is valuable to you as you move forward. Use your memory and intuition to help you outmaneuver anyone […]
Posted inbPlus, Mark LaFlamme
Ricky Gervais said WHAT?
Look out below! So, this week I was assigned to cover an Androscoggin County commissioners meeting, a fact that would typically send me into a Ricky Gervais level tantrum that would last all night and into morning. My rage was subdued, somewhat, by the fact that by covering the commissioners, I got to enjoy the […]
Posted inbPlus
The sounds of sleep: How white — or brown — noise brings peace to the night
Come on, feel the noise: For many people, an acoustic distraction — Tibetan bowls anyone? — is the only way to get a good night’s sleep.
Posted inPerspective
Restraint, not revenge against Iran, will better serve the United States
How the lessons of George Washington apply to Iran.
Posted inPerspective
A look at Soleimani’s Revolutionary Guard Corps
The elite forces have helped shape events in the Middle East for decades.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
New year! New rubbish?
The new year has been celebrated and we return to “ordinary time”: Daily routines of work, school and organizations. So too returns that endless stream of political drivel: printed, posted and broadcast. Within days, the talking heads will get (or compose) a fresh load of rubbish to spread along with their fact free conclusions. Candidates will seek every opportunity for camera time and political advertisements will push the skin creams and antacids off the air anywhere […]
Posted inPerspective
Where U.S. troops are in the Middle East, and could now be a target
The U.S. has tens of thousands of military personnel on bases, aboard ships and at other installations across the Middle East.