The latest on the coronavirus pandemic from around the U.S. and the world.
2020
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Esports shows gaming can be more than idle activity
Twelve Maine high schools are fielding teams in the first year, and finding out that it is helping kids connect to one another.
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Posted inBusiness
Farmington Center for Entrepreneurial Studies envisioning boys and girls club
Vision is to reduce poverty and homelessness and increase diversity and inclusion.
Posted inBicentennial
On this date in Maine history: Dec. 4
Dec. 4, 1816: The Massachusetts General Court dissolves a Brunswick convention held to determine the results of a Sept. 2 referendum on whether Maine should separate from Massachusetts. The decision is a blow to pro-separatists, who badly mismanaged their accounting of the referendum result. Dec. 4, 1899: U.S. House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed (1839-1902) of […]
Posted inMaine, News, Schools and Education
Maine schools stick to in-person instruction as coronavirus numbers rise
COVID cases are increasing in schools, but officials say they have seen little evidence of transmission in school buildings and plan to continue offering in-person learning as long as it’s safe.
Posted inMaine, News
Federal and state officials don’t explain discrepancy in Maine’s first vaccine shipment
A day after Gov. Janet Mills said the state was told it would receive a third of the doses it expected, spokespeople for Sens. Collins and King wouldn’t say what Maine’s senators are doing to ensure a fair and equitable distribution of the vaccine.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Tom Waddell: What is wrong with how we elect presidents
The Electoral College is the product of discrimination, and it still holds back equality today.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Commentary: Democrats’ new agenda is to aid the affluent
Republicans can thank their opponents for giving them a new appeal to the working class.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Achieving justice in our future requires understanding past injustices
A recent editorial offers incomplete insight into the national tragedy resulting from the intersection of Native Americans and European white settlers.