By Matthew Gagnon It is unlikely that you were following the results of the latest Plenum of the Communist Party of China last week.

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Like so many voters who try to stay informed, articles about the pro and con of the high-profile CMP corridor referendum monopolized most of my attention.

By BDN Editorial Board Perhaps it’s just the loss of an hour of daylight at the end of the day, but things feel a bit Dickensian at the moment.

By RJ Heller We have been through a lot these past couple of years.

By Matthew Gagnon “How am I going to afford my life?” If I was going to try to find one statement that encapsulates the general sense of unease that is permeating our lives right now, and as such is likely to be the primary motivating factor in voting behavior in next year’s midterm elections, that would be the statement.

By BDN Editorial Board The University of Maine field hockey team hosted an America East conference championship in Orono for the first time this past weekend.

To the Editor; The holiday season is upon us again, which means here in the Moosehead Region we do our best to spread holiday cheer all around! To do this, the Moosehead Lake Kiwanis Club will be placing wish trees out in our community very soon.

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By Matthew Gagnon In November of 1952, the state of Virginia did something that it had only done once in the prior eight decades: it voted for a Republican for president.

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To the Editor; So often one hears about the negative results of a local hospital visit.

By Bob Duchesne Time flies.

By Matthew Gagnon Political junkies — like me — tend to think everyone follows the daily political scrum the same way that we do.

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By Nancy Battick I recently attended a webinar given by the new Maine State Archivist Katherine McBrien.