President Donald Trump thinks Google’s search engine is “rigged.” By featuring more mainstream news outlets and relatively fewer conservative sites in the results he sees, Trump tweeted Tuesday, Google is “suppressing” right-wing views on its platform. Trump escalated his attacks Tuesday afternoon in remarks from the Oval Office, warning that “Google and Twitter and Facebook, […]
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Why we no longer slam the door in the face of the front step political visitor
Just over 210 years ago during his remarkable 21-year tenure as president of Yale, Timothy Dwight wrote a book about his many travels throughout the northeastern U. S. Dwight offered some insights on what then kept his fellow Americans in this part of the country amused in their leisure time. The first pursuit Dwight listed […]
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Rearview Mirror: Brickman needs real collaboration to treat what ails CMHC
Central Maine Healthcare has been ailing for some time. The question is whether Jeff Brickman, the CEO hired two years ago to lead the financially troubled system to solvency and sustainability, is curing its problems or aggravating them. It’s impossible for an outsider like myself to accurately assess the situation at CMHC, but the highly […]
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Once, Baltimore institutions were proud of Ben Carson
In this May 3, 2018, photo, a portrait of Ben Carson hangs in the Ben Carson Reading Room inside of the Archbishop Borders School in Baltimore. The portrait used to hang in the school’s hallway, but Principal Alicia Freeman moved it out of public view during Carson’s presidential campaign. (AP Photo/Juliet Linderman) BALTIMORE — The […]
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The world's on fire. Blame a kink in the jet stream
Sweltering? Swimming? Choking on wildfire smoke? Blame it on the jet stream. Kinked, buckled, stuck or stalled, it doesn’t matter how you describe it, the ribbon of wind that circles the Earth is doing strange things and the calamity list includes wildfires across Scandinavia, Greece and California, record heat in Texas, Japan and Africa and […]
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Wildfires are inevitable – increasing home losses, fatalities and costs are not
Wildfire has been an integral part of California ecosystems for centuries. Now, however, nearly a third of homes in California are in wildland urban interface areas where houses intermingling with wildlands and fire is a natural phenomenon. Just as Californians must live with earthquake risk, they must live with wildfires. Shaped by ignitions, climate and […]
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A perfect storm of factors is making wildfires bigger and more expensive to control
Hopes for fewer large wildfires in 2018, after last year’s disastrous fire season, are rapidly disappearing across the West. Six deaths have been reported in Northern California’s Carr Fire, including two firefighters. Fires have scorched Yosemite, Yellowstone, Crater Lake, Sequoia and Grand Canyon national parks. A blaze in June forced Colorado to shut down the […]
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FAQ: What it means to "print" a gun
A little-known dispute over 3D-printed guns has morphed into a national legal debate in the last week, drawing attention to a technology that seems a bit of sci-fi fantasy and — to gun-control advocates — a dangerous way for criminals to get their hands on firearms that are easy to conceal and tough to detect. […]
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From gun kits to 3D printable guns, a short history of rogue gun makers
Gun rights activist Cody Wilson got a green light from the Trump administration in June to publish digital blueprints on the internet that will enable anyone with a 3D printer to make a plastic gun. A federal judge blocked distribution of those blueprints. But thousands of people have already downloaded them. Designs include handguns and […]
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The First Amendment protects plans for 3D guns
The prospect of ordinary people making guns at home on their 3D printers seems scary. Even President Donald Trump, a strong Second Amendment supporter, has tweeted that it “doesn’t seem to make much sense.” Attorneys general in eight states and the District of Columbia agreed, and sued to stop the website of Defense Distributed from […]