2021 – Page 2885 – Lewiston Sun Journal

In a word: Joan Didion: ‘The arrangement of words matter’

by Jim Witherell January 2, 2021December 29, 2021

‘To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed,’ the well-known writer once said.

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Catching up with Sabattus Fire Chief Troy Cailler

by Mark LaFlamme January 2, 2021January 1, 2022

Face Time: Now going on two years since he was hired, we caught up with the young fire chief to get his thoughts on firefighting and the future of the department.

Letters, Opinion

In rebuttal: Terry Hansen: Lowry’s climate crisis views contradict experts

January 2, 2021December 31, 2020

Columnist Rich Lowry’s dismissal of the climate crisis, which recently ran in the Sun Journal, directly contradicts the positions of our armed services, the U.S. insurance industry and financial sector. Consider the following statements: The Department of Defense: “As greenhouse gas emissions increase, sea levels are rising, average global temperatures are increasing, and severe weather […]

Connections

Auburn library to offer online nature meditation class

January 2, 2021December 31, 2020

AUBURN — The Auburn Public Library will host “Meditating on the Wisdom of Nature,” led by certified meditation and mindfulness instructor Martin Gagnon, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 13, online via Zoom. With a nature-based meditation practice, participants can train their minds to become less reactive and more at peace. From the plant […]

Op-Eds, Opinion

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Susan Collins – radical?

January 2, 2021December 31, 2020

Few U.S. senators have had more political power in recent years than Susan Collins, Republican of Maine. Arguably, no one has made less use of her power than Collins. She often calls herself a moderate and has identified herself with Sen. Margaret Chase Smith, also a Republican from Maine. Smith, though, used her power to […]

Op-Eds, Opinion

Austin Bay: 2020’s bio-economic world war: Communist China lied; millions of human beings died

January 2, 2021December 31, 2020

As 2021 begins, the Chinese Communist Party cover-up will continue. A CCP court just sentenced citizen-journalist Zhang Zhan to prison for questioning the CCP’s early 2020 falsehoods.

Zhan will spend four years in jail for telling the truth about communist China’s Big Lie.

Opinion

Cartoon for Saturday, Jan. 2

January 2, 2021December 31, 2020

Op-Eds, Opinion

Rich Lowry: Behold, the delivery revolution

January 2, 2021December 30, 2020

What Amazon, and e-commerce more broadly, is doing is selling goods to consumers at low prices, while giving them more convenience than ever before (rapid delivery to their doorsteps, with the possibility of easy returns) and creating new jobs in the process.