Many people who have sought community services following the mass shooting are not terribly interested in looking back. They know what that looks like.
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After Lewiston shootings, embrace life. Every one. Every minute. Every day.
Every single one of these people, people we knew and loved, left their lives behind while doing perfectly ordinary things with every expectation they would be returning to their homes and their loved ones Wednesday night.
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The road to sobriety is through support. Not rejection.
The common good here is facing — as a community — the need to make sure our friends and neighbors are safe, to help people moving toward recovery, and to demonstrate Lewiston is a city where people matter.
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Our View: Poetic justice for a man who lived a life of faith, hope
According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, there were 83 bias-motivated crimes in Maine last year, the most since 2008.
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Our View: Send equal rights amendment to Mainers to decide
A young woman in Farmington noted that “it is imperative that we not only make women’s legal equality a constitutionally protected right, but we need to empower oversight that this law is upheld.”
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A ‘No’ vote will bring cleaner air, revenue to Maine
The politics of this project must not override the positives, and the promises and concessions made by NECEC must not wither. Vote “No” and hold NECEC accountable for every word and deed.
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Our View: Many broad promises, without achieving full broadband access
As we look back on decades of campaign promises and administrative wobbling, and on tens of millions of dollars in broadband investment, Maine is behind and getting behinder.
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Our view: Our republic is in dire need of fresh allegiance
We are a nation that operates by rule of law. Not, by rule of kings. That is the foundation of our republic.
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An existence of challenge, of obstacles
The break in education over the spring, and then over the summer, will most certainly have a lasting and negative impact on learning. For students who don’t have the support, and/or the technology to study at home in the current year, the impact will be far more detrimental.
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Firefighters work at risk — for us. Every single day
Farmington Fire Chief Terry Bell Deputy Chief S. Clyde Ross Capt. Scott Baxter Capt. TD Hardy Firefighter Ted Baxter Firefighter Joe Hastings LEAP maintenance supervisor Larry Lord And, of course, Capt. Mike Bell. On Monday, each of these men went to work doing what they love, in a community they dearly love. Each of them […]