I am not sure how political news reporting pulls out of its years-long credibility nose dive. What’s happening now with former CBS war correspondent (2002-2018) Lara Logan is a recent example. Let me be clear: my subject here is “political news,” not sports news, cooking news, nor any type of news other than political news.

The following births were recorded recently at Mayo Regional Hospital in Dover-Foxcroft

While the extent of this global emergency is daunting, there is a ray of hope in HR 763, The Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act. This nonpartisan solution is estimated to reduce America’s carbon pollution by at least 40 percent within 12 years, while returning a carbon dividend to all Americans monthly.

The Girls AA/A/B North team includes Foxcroft Academy’s Makenzie Beaudry among the 13 players on the roster. The Girls C/D North team includes Kaylee Deering of Dexter Regional High School and Camryn Rolfe of Penquis Valley High School. Trever Richards of Dexter is a Boys Class C/North team selection.

On Wednesday night, Feb. 27, following months of due diligence, planning, and gathering public input, the board that oversees Mayo Regional Hospital (Hospital Administrative District 4) plans to vote on a non-binding merger agreement with Northern Light Health, a statewide health care system.

It will be an offensive juggernaut against a stifling defense in Friday’s 7:05 p.m. Class C North schoolgirl semifinal between sixth seed Calais, 19-1, and second seed Dexter, 16-3, at the Cross Insurance Center in Bangor.

Ashley Bussell of Greenville received the third-place award at the 2019 American Legion State Oratorical Contest at Thomas College in Waterville Feb. 9.

There are few places as inhospitable to conservatives as the city of Chicago. In the 2018 election for governor in Illinois, for instance, the city of Chicago voted for Democrat J.B. Pritzker over incumbent Republican Governor Bruce Rauner by a whopping margin of 81.34 percent to 15.19 percent. The Democratic margin of victory was even larger in the 2016 presidential contest.

One of my favorite techniques for fish collection is using our fish weir. I’d like to say it was a new idea, but Roger AuClair, the first regional fisheries biologist in the Moosehead Lake area, built a wooden weir on Socatean Stream in 1957-58. It was our desire to duplicate his work some 50 years later that led to the design and fabrication of our new steel picket weir.

Penobscot Valley High School hosted approximately 28 schools and 56 grapplers across eight classes at Maine’s first all-female state wrestling championship. Three Dexter Regional High School Tiger wrestlers took to the mat on Wednesday, Feb. 20 hoping to be a girls state champion -- two met that goal.