Street Talk: Not only is artificial intelligence producing credible written works these days, by some estimates, those bots may be responsible for HALF the content you find on the web.
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Mark LaFlamme: No time for the monkey bars: Adulting is just a drag
Street Talk: Every kid who dreams of being a grown-up will eventually be cursed with that very thing.
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Mark LaFlamme: James Earl Jones must hate the new baseball rules
Street Talk: Major League Baseball is tampering with tradition all over the place, and in a variety of perverse ways.
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Mark LaFlamme: Lost ladies find their way home
Street Talk: Maybe someone will write a folk song about Maine’s lost ladies. Someone should.
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Mark LaFlamme: 21 years of blither
Street Talk: It’s downright strange to me that a person sitting next to me, drinking legally at a bar, could have been born the year I started writing Street Talk.
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Mark LaFlamme: Abused feline has found a home, wanted in another
Street Talk: For the cat named Harlow, the long road to recovery was just beginning. But for the young woman who rescued the animal, all that awaited was frustration.
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Mark LaFlamme: Victims are awaiting justice and finding it lacking
For more than a year, Tyrone Fulgham anxiously waited to see punishment doled out to the man who took his leg. When the day of sentencing finally arrived, it was not very satisfying. Mason Perez, the 29-year-old whose reckless driving cost Fulgham most of his right leg in September 2021, would serve no jail time. […]
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Mark LaFlamme: Alcohol: The forgotten drug epidemic
Street Talk: Where a substance like fentanyl is apt to drop a man where he stands in his dreamy nod, liquor takes its time; a cat toying with a field mouse before delivering the fatal blow.
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Mark LaFlamme: A beloved fire investigator is leaving, and reporting will never be the same
Street Talk: At every fire scene I went to in Lewiston over the years, the first guy I looked for was Paul Ouellette.
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Mark LaFlamme: Editors ain’t so bad . . .
Street Talk: Editors have the magic to make bad writing good and to make good writing better. When they’re not sending you off to do stupid stuff, that is.