In order to stay in business, many farms are diversifying through different products, opportunities, and revenue streams. A solar farm should almost always be one of those tools for a farmer to consider — if they and a developer so choose.

Dirty tricks are not to be confused with negative campaigning, which at least has some component of truth, but a filing by special counsel John Durham that alleges the 2016 presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton paid a technology company to “infiltrate” or “spy” — the word Donald Trump uses — on his presidential campaign and later while he was president, goes beyond dirty tricks into the illegal.

Solid waste policy is extremely dynamic, regional, and essential for Maine people and municipalities. The Lewiston facility has been an essential part of the region’s complex solid waste management system, assisting the state of Maine and the larger New England region in their ambitious efforts to meet recycling goals. That work must continue.

America remains a land of plenty, of course, but the present shortages are a poke in the eye to any sense of sacred national entitlement. It turns out this ability to have whatever, whenever, is fragile enough to be undone by idling trucks or an unruly virus.

It’s not always easy defining “the American way.” Is it a life of hiking and yoga and kale salads for lunch? Or is it sitting all day at a desk, in a vehicle or in front of the TV, all the while downing nuggets and fries?