I wrote something for today's paper about a historic moment at Bates College that has been utterly forgotten until now: sunjournal.com/?p=10993288&uu…

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People say “well what did people do before vaccines/antibiotics/ pasteurization?” as if that’s an argument for going natural. They died. A lot of people died.

Release this thing to the world! The Prince We Never Knew nytimes.com/2024/09/08/mag…

This is quite possibly the first cover of The Atlantic magazine ever (in 167 years!) to be published without a headline or typography describing the stories inside. Here is The Atlantic's October cover:

Wrote a story that links my former community of Bristol, Connecticut with my home in Maine: a tale of the first woman valedictorian at a co-ed college anywhere. Jennie North was from Bristol and graduated from Bates College in 1877. sunjournal.com/2024/09/08/a-p…

You can have your Honus Wagner baseball cards because I possess a genuine Sen. Susan Collins trading card.

There's something to be said for generals refraining from politics. But Presidents Washington, Jackson, Wm. Harrison, Taylor, Pierce, Johnson, Grant, Hayes, Garfield, Arthur, Benjamin Harrison & Eisenhower were generals. More than 25% of our presidents, in short, were generals.

Connecticut eyes ranked-choice voting: ctnewsjunkie.com/2024/09/09/gov…

Maine not only lets felons vote. It lets felons in prison vote. And whatever our problems may be, they don't seem to have anything to do with letting every citizen vote.

Yikes. Lucky this wasn't a lot worse.

Let’s be clear: This is illegal and unconstitutional. The American people had voted. The courts had ruled. The Electoral College had met and voted. The Governor in every state had certified the results and sent a legal slate of electors to the Congress to be counted. The Vice

>Speaker Mike Johnson is getting his first taste at what a Trump presidency is like This morning, he told me he didnt want a shutdown, it benefits no one. and he is working to avoid one. Now Trump has called for a shutdown if Rs dont get SAVE Act. This is what 2017-2021 was like.

One of Connecticut's most respected journalists, Tom Condon, is gone. He wrote some great stuff for many years. RIP. ctmirror.org/2024/09/10/tom…

As Debate Looms, Trump Is Now the One Facing Questions About Age and Capacity nytimes.com/2024/09/09/us/…

David Muir fact-checking Trump on dogs and cats being eaten by immigrants in Springfield, Ohio... in a debate. For president.

So many Republicans complaining about ABC that it is clear who won.