Many of the people we love, and the people who have contributed to our country, could trace their roots to other places.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Toni Morrison wouldn’t let us forget our racist past, and it haunts us still
The timing of her death is particularly poignant: We’re mourning both the novelist and the innocent people cut down for no reason but hatred.
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Posted inGreg Kesich, Opinion
The View From Here: Murders that ended the ’60s still haunt us
Between the moon walk and Woodstock, Charles Manson’s ‘family’ reminded the world to be afraid of change.
Posted inBicentennial, Local & State, New England, News
Vote on Maine statehood was far from assured two centuries ago
Every attempt over the previous 30 years to separate from Massachusetts had failed until July 26, 1819 – 200 years ago this week.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Local & State, News
How Lewiston-Auburn reacted to the moon landing 50 years ago
While some residents expressed skepticism about the cost of the Apollo missions, others were wowed by them.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Holocaust comparisons have unintended consequences
The lessons of Hitler’s reign of brutality are weakened if every injustice is likened to them.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Insight: The man who made Maine a 2-party state
Best remembered as a federal judge, Frank M. Coffin said he was most proud of his work with Edmund S. Muskie to revive the Maine Democratic Party in the 1950s.
Posted inMaine Voices, Op-Eds, Opinion
Maine Voices: Response to discrimination must occur before genocide is on the horizon
Whatever the defining term, we need to focus on the degradation being funded by our tax dollars at the border.
Posted inLewiston-Auburn, Sports
When boxer John L. Sullivan came to Lewiston, he proved a ‘gigantic fizzle’
When the world’s first heavyweight boxing champion visited Lewiston in 1885 for an exhibition match, it didn’t go well.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Welcome home, asylum seekers
The short-term disruption of a large number of immigrants should not obscure the real meaning of this event.