Biden is bullish on a big increase in the minimum wage, but economists are sharply divided on the impact on jobs.
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Lawyers who were ineligible to handle serious criminal charges were given thousands of these cases anyway
In the only state with no public defenders, people charged with murder and other serious crimes can get assigned attorneys who are legally ineligible to take on their cases. The state claims it was unaware.
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How Black cartographers put racism on the map of America
Mapping is one way African Americans fight for equality and help each other navigate a racially hostile landscape.
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What last year’s vote may tell us about the vaccination debate today
We love our anniversaries. Newspapers typically feature them as in century and half century retrospectives. So, let’s now turn the clock back a bit, not 100 or even 50 years but just one year ago. It’s late February 2020, the time when the first cases of community transmission of the coronavirus were reported in the […]
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Black sororities have stood at the forefront of Black achievement for more than a century
Members of the nation’s four Black sororities, including Vice President Kamala Harris, commit to lifelong acts of service for their communities.
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Biden’s vaccine push runs into distrust in the Black community
As Biden pushes his vaccine campaign, he faces a deep-seated distrust of the medical establishment among Black communities that have long faced mistreatment at its hands.
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Androscoggin commissioner needs to learn more about science and the law
Androscoggin County Commissioner Isaiah Lary can’t pretend that his personal take on science and the law gives him a free pass to act as he wishes.
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Why using fear to promote COVID-19 vaccination and mask wearing could backfire
You probably still remember public service ads that scared you: The cigarette smoker with throat cancer. The victims of a drunk driver. The guy who neglected his cholesterol lying in a morgue with a toe tag. With new, highly transmissible variants of SARS-CoV-2 now spreading, some health professionals have started calling for the use of similar fear-based strategies to persuade people to […]
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Black History Month: Gerald Talbot, Maine’s first Black lawmaker
Newspaper compositor and civil rights advocate Gerald Talbot, a Democrat from Portland, was elected to Maine House of Representatives on Nov. 7, 1972, making him the first Black member of the Maine Legislature. Talbot, a Bangor native, attended the 1963 March on Washington and heard the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. deliver his “I Have […]
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What 2020 taught us about race and class in America
The events of 2020 challenged and changed our individual and collective identities as Americans.