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PublishedApril 16, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Sweet words from secret squirrel sources
If a police beat reporter doesn't have a good fleet of secret squirrel sources, he is stuck day after day waiting for the OFFICIAL WORD to come down from city hall, the police department or some political mouthpiece.
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PublishedApril 9, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Turns out the eclipse WAS pretty awesome
Street Talk: For a long moment, it felt as though the world had taken a brief timeout so that its complex human inhabitants could take a moment to reflect upon their existence.
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PublishedMarch 19, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Forever in search of the perfect sleep concoction
Street Talk: When you have trouble accessing sleep on the reg, you end up searching endlessly for the perfect panacea that you remain convinced is out there.
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PublishedMarch 12, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: A death-faking beetle and other oddities borne of pure desperation
Street Talk: Why spend precious minutes writing a column when I can have unsuspecting fools on Facebook write one for me?
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PublishedMarch 5, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Alleged reporter misses his notebook
Ubiquitous, convenient and unavoidable technology turned my floppy, faithful notebook into an archaic relic good for little more than starting fires or swatting flies.
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PublishedFebruary 27, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: In the old days, the Lewiston Walk of Shame was a weekly occurrence
Street Talk: The Walk of Shame was a giddy affair for me. For making a small-time hack like myself feel like a genuine, big league reporter, no single event could compare to the Lewiston Walk of Shame
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PublishedFebruary 13, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Weird scenes inside the B Section
Street talk: When I went to work for the B Section, my editors at last had their chance to punish me for all the misbehaving I'd done from my relatively safe perch on the police beat.
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PublishedFebruary 6, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Lost souls from the golden age of characters in downtown Lewiston
Street talk: When Howard stopped to talk, it was a by-God event, because Howard was one of the friendliest fellows I've ever met.
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PublishedJanuary 30, 2024
When it comes to animal stories, you can’t always get what you want
Covering the plight of Ghost reminded me a lot of a different dog named Abby who, in 2016, was abandoned in the cold along Strawberry Avenue in Lewiston.
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PublishedJanuary 24, 2024
Mark LaFlamme: Expensive McMuffins, the evils of Florida and other secrets revealed in mystery mail
Street Talk: Once you start reading one of this mystery man's letters, it all starts to make sense, like one of those crazy photos with mystery image hidden behind the pixels.
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