By BDN Editorial Board The Piscataquis County commissioners — James White, Andrew Torbett and Wayne Erkkinen — recently passed a “resolution of protest” decrying actions taken by Gov.

By Matthew Gagnon Depending on your political perspective, the inauguration of Joe Biden as president is either a relieving return to regular order, or a depressing and somber triumph of the establishment.

By David Farmer The challenges that Joe Biden will face on his first day in office are truly legion.

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By Matthew Gagnon “Ahead of the Ugandan election,” the official Twitter policy account said in a tweet on Tuesday, “we’re hearing reports that Internet service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps.

By David Farmer The realities of the failed insurrection last week are still hard to comprehend.

By Nancy Battick We all hope to see the end of COVID-19 sometime this year and, we hope, a return to something approaching normalcy.

By Matthew Gagnon, bangor Daily News Staff This morning, I experienced a blitzkrieg of phone calls, text messages, and emails from friends and colleagues, all eager to unload their frustrations after the Georgia Senate disaster.

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By David Farmer Members of the Trump administration are rarely honest — particularly when talking about the Democratic Party.

By Lara Clark and Carolina King As one of the longest and most challenging years of our lives draws to a close — with the promise of a vaccine offset by the gravity of staggering infection rates and devastating loss of loved ones — we would like to take a moment to reflect on the amazing resilience of our Red Cross partners.

By Matthew Gagnon A trillion here, a trillion there.

By David Farmer After handing over my paycheck to the grocery store on Monday night, it was clear how much my family’s life revolves around food.

By Nancy Battick Time is flying by and as we near the end of this year and face a new one I usually do a column about genealogical resolutions including making more time to research, entering your research in your software, taking care of your family photos and labeling them, filing documents if you do that, exploring a new genealogical website, and trying to attend a local genealogical group or a conference.

By Matthew Gagnon With the year we are having, people everywhere are turning to the warm, comforting embrace of tradition to get them through the tough times.

By David Farmer The proposition was one of those that’s hard to decipher — was it real or was it a satirical comment on the times? After four years of a President Donald Trump, is there even such a thing as satire any longer? “We could meet in the Civic Center parking lot in Augusta and exchange gifts,” was the idea floated.

By Matthew Gagnon After years of making bold predictions according to the year in question — 19 predictions in 2019, 20 in 2020, etc .