While the Trump administration resorted to threats, menace and cruelty, our state found another way.
2019
Sen. Mike Enzi: Editorial misleads on tax cuts, budget woes
Your Aug. 11 editorial, “Our View: Deficit would be zero if not for tax cuts,” criticizing tax relief for American families and job creators makes a number of misleading assertions and glosses over uncomfortable facts that we as a nation must confront. Our country is on an unsustainable fiscal course, but this situation did not arise […]
Our View: Town business at the dump
If you can’t handle town business at the dump, where can you do it? That’s not just a question for the town manager of Clinton, who got an earful from residents at a meeting Tuesday after banning petition gatherers from collecting signatures at the transfer station. It’s for everyone who laments the loosening of community […]
Inventing vacationland talk set for Aug. 22
Journalist Scott Andrews to give slideshow and presentation.
Massachusetts vehicle registry suspends another 869 driver licenses
A review of the agency’s practices is ongoing after it was revealed that the driver in a crash that killed seven motorcyclists should not have been licensed.
Tennessee inmate executed in electric chair for killings
Stephen West, 56, was convicted in the stabbing deaths of a woman and her 15-year-old daughter in 1986.
At N.H. rally, Trump dismisses fears about economy
The president tells rallygoers in Manchester that their financial security depends on his re-election.
Lewiston chicken owners confused about ordinance
A little-known 30,000-square-foot requirement has residents in the city having to lay off their birds.
Kennebunkport trust has plans for affordable homes
The group hopes to attract young families to the town by building 25 affordable homes by 2025.
Dale Earnhardt Jr. taking weekend off after surviving plane crash
Earnhardt and his wife and daughter were involved in a plane crash as the family landed Thursday near Bristol Motor Speedway.