Waterville Mayor Nick Isgro posted three words on Twitter about two months ago that would go on to become the subject of widespread and acrimonious debate in the city and across the state. “Eat it, Hogg,” Isgro said in response to an article about Fox News commentator Laura Ingraham losing sponsorships for disparaging remarks she […]
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Waterville Mayor Isgro faces calls for resignation over tweet attacking Parkland student
WATERVILLE — Mayor Nick Isgro is facing a growing backlash for a social media post about a survivor of the Parkland, Florida school shooting, including demands that he apologize or resign from office. Meanwhile, Democrats, some city councilors and residents said Thursday the mayor’s recent tweet about David Hogg isn’t an anomaly and is just […]
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Understanding the other side
There is an adage I remember from my childhood: Watch your thoughts for they become words; your words become actions; your actions become habits; your habits are your character. Regardless of any affiliations, people are obligated to denounce dangerous rhetoric when they see or hear it. The National Rifle Association is getting a lot of […]
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'Picture of education in fear' as Parkland students return with armed guards
PARKLAND, Fla. (AP) — Students and teachers passed through tight security cordons of dozens of officers as classes resumed Wednesday for the first time since a troubled teenager with an AR-15 killed 17 people, thrusting them into the center of the nation’s gun debate. The armed police, designed to make Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School […]