By Matthew Gagnon With less than a week until Election Day, there is a brewing melodrama surrounding newspaper endorsements.

By Jared Bornstein The notion of “fair chase” was recently brought up by writers criticizing trail camera use in a recent letter to the editor and column.

By Austin Theriault Mainers have been forgotten by the politicians in Washington who I think care more about personal gain than they do the people they are meant to serve.

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By Aislinn Sarnacki I’ve been on quite a few outdoor adventures recently, soaking up the last rays of summer and clinging to the colors of fall.

By Chris Babbidge Issues at stake on voting day include the survival of American democracy, whether women and girls will control their reproductive lives, whether the government will stand up for the middle class or instead for billionaire influencers, and whether America can be counted on as a voice for justice in the world.

By Matthew Gagnon One of the stories — some would say scandals — of both the 2016 and 2020 campaigns for president was how broken polling was, particularly as it related to Donald Trump.

By Nancy Battick Did you have an ancestor who worked in transportation? Here in New England, many of us had ancestors who were involved with the sea or rivers.

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Do you favor a $30,000,000 bond issue to invest in the design, development and maintenance for nonmotorized, motorized and multi-use trails statewide, to be matched by at least $3,000,000 in private and public contributions? By BDN Editorial Board Question 4, the result of a bipartisan bill in the Legislature, is a $30 million bond for trails in Maine.

Do you favor a bond issue of $25,000,000 to provide funds, to be awarded through a competitive process and to leverage matching private and federal funds on at least a one-to-one basis, for research and development and commercialization for Maine-based public and private institutions in support of technological innovation in the targeted sectors of life sciences and biomedical technology, environmental and renewable energy technology, information technology, advanced technologies for forestry and agriculture, aquaculture and marine technology, composites and advanced materials and precision manufacturing? By BDN Editorial Board That’s a really long question with a fairly simple goal: continuing a state investment in innovation that has created jobs and helped to grow Maine’s economy.

By Matthew Gagnon This week we learned that both Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are in negotiations to appear on the “Joe Rogan Experience” prior to Election Day, which is currently the most listened to podcast in the world.

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Standing on the summit, surrounded by jagged hunks of rock, I looked out over a seemingly endless forest of crimson, gold and burnt orange foliage.

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By Matthew Gagnon Sometimes, it’s no fun being right.

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By Nancy Battick If you’re searching in a foreign-language newspaper or other documents and don’t know the language, then you have a couple of choices.