The senator and former governor can’t seem to get enough of either.
2018
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World
No argument: IBM computer proves to be formidable debater
Project Debater showcases the company’s work in artificial intelligence and aims to demonstrate that computers are getting better at analyzing and responding to human speech.
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Posted inAnimals, Nation & World, News, Science
Researchers studying how mountain lions adapt to life amid metropolitan sprawl
A den with four kittens is the 15th found by scientists researching how cougars survive in fragmented wilderness areas in Southern California.
Posted inBusiness, Nation & World, Politics
Colorado joins California to keep Trump from rolling back pollution rules
Gov. John Hickenlooper says the state will invoke a provision under the Clean Air Act that allows states to follow California in pursuing aggressive air quality goals set during the Obama administration.
Posted inLocal & State
Waterville council unanimously approves proposed $41.9 million budget
The budget represents an 8.3 percent tax rate increase, but Mayor Nick Isgro has said he would veto any budget with a tax rate increase of more than 3 percent.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Local & State
Lewiston edible-insect business expanding, aims to raise million crickets a month
Entosense LLC moves from a barn in Auburn to Lewiston’s Hill Mill as demand for edible bug products grows.
Posted inNation & World
U.N. agency that assists Palestinian refugees says budget shortfall will bring ‘painful cuts’
The Trump administration has withheld $65 million of a planned $125 million funding installment for the U.N. Relief and Works Agency as it demands major reforms.
Posted inLegion Baseball, Sports
Augusta Legion baseball can’t stop Bessey Motors in opener
Oxford Hills-based team scores in every inning en route to commanding win.
Posted inNation & World
New York City police to switch to summonses for public pot-smoking violations
The change starting Sept. 1 comes after The New York Times reported blacks in the city were eight times more likely to be arrested on low-level marijuana charges as whites.
Posted inBusiness, Food & Dining, Nation & World
‘Clean meat’ ignites a war of words as food made in labs enters markets
The traditional industry objects to the term being used for a product made by replicating animal cells, another episode in the emergence of substitutes for the real thing.