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Supermarkets are a miracle

Why did we ever take them for granted?

WHY DOES HOLLYWOOD HATE REAL ESTATE DEVELOPERS?

THE TYPECASTING OF BUILDERS AS VILLAINS MIGHT HELP EXPLAIN WHY NIMBYS SO OFTEN WIN THE POLICY BATTLES OVER URBAN GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT.

Coronavirus Cuisine

IN THE FACE OF THE GREATEST CHALLENGE IN GENERATIONS, AMERICA’S CHEFS, BARTENDERS, AND RESTAURANT OWNERS ARE REINVENTING THEIR FOOD, THEIR BUSINESSES, AND THEMSELVES.

Indians and Aliens

Human beings’ disturbing capacity to manufacture history to serve our own ends

TRUMP'S TRADE WAR MADE THE PANDEMIC WORSE, AND NATIONALISM WILL SLOW THE RECOVERY

PROTECTIONISM IS NOW INFECTING THE GOP TO A DEGREE THAT MAY BE DIFFICULT TO ERADICATE WHEN THE TRUMP ERA ENDS.

Jo Jorgensen Is the 2020 Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee

Jo Jorgensen, a senior lecturer in psychology at Clemson University,

I Don't Want To Be Anybody's Employee

THE PUSH TO RECLASSIFY INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS IS HARMING MANY OF THE WORKERS IT’S SUPPOSED TO HELP.

FROM ANTIFA TO UFOS, ONE JOKE CAN SPAWN A THOUSAND CONSPIRACIES

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PRANK OR SPOOF SPARKS A REAL BELIEF?

Capitalism Trumps Hate

CEOs have often been ahead of cops and politicians on gay rights.

What It's Like to Be a Business Owner During Covid-19

Cheese shop owner Jill Erber on why she’s keeping her store open to take care of her customers and her community

Wait, Wasn't Peter Thiel a Libertarian?

The Tech Billionaire and his contrarian circle are developing new nationalist visions for American's future.

Carried Interest

The plastic industry has a brand new bag, thanks to the coronavirus.

“Workers are being sacrified''

As coronavirus cases mounted, a giant meatpacker kept workers on crowded factory floors.

Going Postal

The pandemic gives the gop a whole new way to squash the vote.

Cruise Control

Worker exploitation. Illegal dumping. Cover-ups. Tax dodging. How the Trumpiest industry on Earth stays afloat.

Debt Collector

Donald Trump has nearly $500 million in loans coming due. They may be his biggest conflict of interest yet.

Death and Taxes

The Trump tax cut failed to deliver for all but the very rich. And the gop thinks this is the perfect time for more.

Failed State

How the president’s denial of reality made a dangerous virus even more deadly

The Prince of PPE

Jared Kushner had one job: Solve America’s supply crisis. He helped private companies instead.

COVID Donald Trump's Pro Killer Corruption Quo

THE FUNDAMENTAL PURPOSE of government is rather simple: protect the citizenry. Any deliberate perversion of this priority is an exercise of corruption—especially when that basic aim is supplanted by the goal of personal gain. That’s why Donald Trump’s slow, ineffectual, self-serving, and deadly response to the coronavirus has been the most consequential act of corruption in the history of American governance. It eclipses Watergate, Teapot Dome, Iran-Contra, you name it. It also happens to be the continuation—perhaps the culmination—of the corruption that Trump started spreading like a virus the moment he tramped into the White House.

Trump As Thug Or Hero? Depends On What Network You Watch

It was a split-screen for the ages on MSNBC Monday: on the left side, President Donald Trump talking about restoring law and order. On the right, a tear-gassed young woman vomiting in a Washington street.

New substation may keep more lights on

BLUE HILL—The electricity distribution substation being built along route 172 in Blue Hill, just north of the fairgrounds, will include several updates designed to make the local power grid more resilient.

LIBRARY SHELF

We’ve taken advantage of this extended closure to catch up on some long overdue projects that will benefit our patrons.

Need a break from stay-at-home? Take a hike!

Penny’s Nature Preserve in Blue Hill

The alewives are running

Making their annual Bagaduce River run

Inns, hotels report shocking drop in reservations

‘There’s been tons of cancellations’

HERE & ABOUT

Courthouse Gallery opens Spring Show

Fire levels summer home in Surry

SURRY—For the second time in three weeks, a Toddy Pond summer “camp” went up in flames.

Colwell Ramp finished, for now

STONINGTON—The town has finished phase one of its plan to fix up the Colwell Ramp property at the foot of Seabreeze Avenue.

George Stevens Academy announces commencement plans

BLUE HILL—George Stevens Academy will honor the Class of 2020 with an online class night on Saturday, June 13, at 7 p.m. and online commencement exercises on Sunday, June 14, at 1 p.m. The school also announced its senior class honor parts.