Bangor, Maine
Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Bangor, Maine, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 1,274 stories have been published about Bangor, Maine which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.Stay current with all the latest and breaking news about Bangor, Maine, compare headlines and perspectives between news sources on stories happening today. In total, 1,274 stories have been published about Bangor, Maine which Ground News has aggregated in the past 3 months.
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Bangor, Maine · BangorLetters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com. If you were a writer living under Soviet control in the 1920s and 1930s, your work was expected to promote the Communist Party line or it didn’t get read — unless you snuck illegal copies to your friends or smuggled them to the West. And in the late 1940s, Random House’s Bennett Cerf encouraged his fellow publishers not to p…
Letter: The right to tell people what they don’t want to hear
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Bangor, Maine · BangorLetters submitted by BDN readers are verified by BDN Opinion Page staff. Send your letters to letters@bangordailynews.com. The Maine media has extensively covered the ongoing issues involving municipal sludge disposal in the state. What has become clear is that there are serious people ranging from industry experts to Maine Department of Environmental Protection officials to municipal leaders trying to tackle this problem and find workable, real…
Letter: Sludge issue requires solutions not social media posts
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Gun Control · BangorLZ Granderson: Sandy Hook is the mass shooting I hear mentioned most often when people talk about the moment they knew nothing would change. He says Congress was still unable to pass substantive gun or mental health legislation. LZ: For a lot of people, that vote 10 years ago was a clear sign that the National Rifle Association and the gun lobby had won.
Kennedy assassination didn’t lead to gun control. The sight of armed Black men did
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Hepatitis C · BangorThe median house price in Bangor was $267,500 last month, up 30.5 percent since last year. Ted James: Along with this demographic shift, comes an increased prevalence of hepatitis C cases. James: Many homeless individuals are unable to access testing and treatment for hepatitis C.
Hepatitis C care for homeless people is compassionate
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Economy · BangorThe BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set newsroom policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on bangordailynews.com. Steven Greenhouse, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation, is the author of “Beaten Down, Worked Up: The Past, Present, and Future of American Labor.” He wrote this column for the Los Angeles Times. Suddenly lawmakers in several states are rushing to relax child …
Easing child labor laws is bad for kids and our economy
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Education · BangorThe New England Commission of Higher Education reaffirmed its unique status as a system bound together with a single accreditation. The commission also gave the system approval to continue offering competency-based education at the University of Maine at Presque Isle. Accreditation is a voluntary process, but, without it, higher education institutions are disqualified from receiving federal funding for things like financial aid.
Embroiled University of Maine System maintains pioneering institutional accreditation
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Astronomers · BangorTrue North Theatre's "Silent Sky" tells the story of Henrietta Leavitt and her colleagues, who studied photographic plates of the stars. The women were known as human computers at Harvard University. Director Angela Bonacasa used the Maynard Jordan Planetarium at the University of Maine to produce the show.
UMaine planetarium stars in play about groundbreaking astronomers
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