From wineries to hardware stories, to newly rebuilt neighborhoods recovering from a devastating wildfire in 2017, blackouts are redefining a swatch of California.
Carl Natale
Web editor for SunJournal.com
Posted inPerspective
Why we need to treat wildfire as a public health issue in California
Fires are spreading into communities and increasingly affecting large numbers of Californians, sometimes repeatedly. Researchers say it is time to treat fires that affect communities as a public health challenge.
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Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Politics
Lewiston-Auburn election guide for Nov. 5
Auburn and Lewiston voters will elect mayors, city councilors and school committee members of their respective cities Nov. 5.
Posted inNation / World, Politics
Middleman helped Saudi tycoon give to Obama’s second inauguration
Imaad Zuberi will plead guilty to making illegal campaign contributions to several American political candidates on behalf of foreign nationals.
Posted inNew England, New England Patriots
Belichick retiring soon? Don’t bet on it
New England’s mastermind said a decade ago that he wouldn’t coach into his 70s, but a day after getting win No. 300, the 67-year-old was singing a slightly different tune.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Maine Crime
Lewiston police charge five men in prostitution sting
LEWISTON — Five men were arrested Monday night, each charged with engaging a prostitute. According to a Lewiston Police Department statement Tuesday morning, their names and times and places of arrest are: • Laurier Ducharme, 59, of Auburn, 4:30 p.m. at 97 Ash St. • Haji Haji, 60, of Lewiston, 5 p.m. Monday at 20 […]
Posted inMaine Crime, Nation / World
Manhunt underway to find child rapist who was accidentally released from Georgia prison
The Georgia Department of Corrections did not say how the mistake was made.
Posted inPerspective, Uncategorized
More than 4,000 people have been lynched in the U.S.; Trump isn’t one of them
Lynching is a form of murder often used to terrorize black people. Impeachment is a legal process laid out in the U.S. Constitution.
Posted inPerspective, Politics
At least five House Democrats called Bill Clinton’s impeachment a ‘lynching’ in 1998
At least five House Democrats compared the impeachment proceedings of President Bill Clinton to a “lynching” or to a “lynch mob” in 1998. The comments came to light after President Trump on Tuesday compared the impeachment inquiry to a “lynching.”
Posted inPerspective
Trump lynching claim renews pain for kin of actual victims
President Donald Trump’s claim that the impeachment inquiry is a lynching struck a painful chord for black people whose relatives died in racist lynchings