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Font Size: “Government must be a powerful force for good in the lives of Americans,” White House National Economic Council Director Brian Deese announced on March 29. This is the core principle of President Joe Biden’s promise to “change the paradigm” with his $3 trillion stimulus package which seeks to pour vast amounts of tax dollars into dozens of government programs that have dismally failed in the past. But thanks to Biden’s election, the federal government has suddenly become ...

John Paradis Stacy L. Pearsall Published: 3/11/2021 3:46:00 PM Sixty years ago this month, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order that established the Peace Corps. Today, over six decades, more than 240,000 Americans have served in 142 countries. Ted Nelson, a kid from Natick, was in his senior year at Amherst College on Oct. 26, 1963, when President Kennedy came to campus to speak at the groundbreaking of Robert Frost Library and to honor the poet Robert Frost. “The problems whi...

Bemidji experienced a tremendous growth spurt between 1900 and 1910. The next decade was slower in growth. The population only increased from 5,099 to 7,086, and that probably had a lot to do with the fact that Nymore was annexed in 1916. During this decade, Bemidji’s leaders invested money and manpower to work on the city’s infrastructure. Until World War I, there were great strides in the improvement of water, sewer, bridges and roads. After that, a shortage of building materials slowed p...

© Getty Images An ambitious vision and the ability to communicate it are important qualities for any Cabinet member. And President Biden’s nominee for secretary of energy, former Michigan Gov. Jennifer Granholm When introduced as the nominee in December, she declared that her “commitment to clean energy was forged in the fire” (referring to the 2008 financial crisis) and that she is “obsessed with seizing the opportunities that a clean energy future will provide.” As demonstrated by ...

CNHI A masked Sen. Charles Schumer visits Saranac Lake in August 2020. (Enterprise photo — Amy Scattergood ALBANY — Leaders of New York’s local governments, facing sharp revenue declines as a result of the shutdown of portions of the state’s economy last year, are infused with fresh optimism now that a familiar face is about to ascend to one of the federal government’s most influential legislative posts. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., is on the cusp of becoming the Senate majority...

While everybody coped with the onset of the pandemic differently, from baking to home improvement projects to knitting and everything in between, it’s no secret that many people turned to books to escape lockdown boredom and stress.  With library buildings closed to the public because of coronavirus, many readers sought digital titles on Libby, an app run by Overdrive that allows library patrons to check out ebooks and digital audio books.  Several Lake Travis-area libraries saw increased d...

A year of reading in review: Lake Travis area libraries top ebooks of 2020 Sarah Asch, Austin American-Statesman © Contributed photo The Bee Cave Public Library has been closed since March, and during the pandemic readers have turned to ebooks on Libby in record numbers. While everybody coped with the onset of the pandemic differently, from baking to home improvement projects to knitting and everything in between, it’s no secret that many people turned to books to escape lo...