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The DaPonte String Quartet Plays a Transition | Down East Magazine

One of Maine’s most renowned chamber-music ensembles is minus one member and pondering its future.

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Columnist Rooks wrong to bash Trump

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Douglas Rooks: In absence of peace, war becomes inevitable

While understandably focused on the war itself, we shouldn’t forget decisions — mostly those by Israel, the region’s dominant military power — that helped bring it about.

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Douglas Rooks: The dire consequences of hero worship in politics

Donald Trump has been indicted in four different jurisdictions on a whopping total of 91 felony charges. The only president, present or former, to have faced any such charges, he’s nonetheless tightened his grip on the Republican Party. Meanwhile, Joe Biden, who defeated Trump in 2020 by seven million popular votes and 306-232 in electoral […]

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Douglas Rooks: One party owns shutdown politics

The facts are simple. Only Republicans have ever shut down a federal or state government, and only Republicans think it’s a good idea.

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Douglas Rooks: Indigent defense needs help right now

Over the past four years, Maine’s system for representing indigent defendants in criminal cases has been in crisis. But since the pandemic, and its aftermath, it’s really become two crises. Unfortunately, the agency in charge — the Maine Commission on Indigent Legal Services (MCILS) — is only working on the system’s long-term problems, almost completely […]

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The Maine Idea: Hospitals are also part of the health care dilemma

The Maine Idea: Hospitals are also part of the health care dilemma
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Douglas Rooks: Hospitals also part of health care dilemma

I used to think the gold standard for American health care reform would be a “universal” or “single payer” system similar to Canada’s, where everyone is covered, there are no bills to consumers, and government directs spending to providers. Canada’s system is called Medicare. It started when our Medicare did, in 1965, and become nationwide […]

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Douglas Rooks: Biden's big deal on Medicare prescription drug prices

President Biden announced the first price negotiations over 10 super-expensive Medicare drugs last week through the Inflation Reduction Act as if it were a big deal. It is. In fact, it’s the first time since the program’s creation under Lyndon Johnson in 1965 that Democrats have struck a major blow toward reducing the program’s costs […]

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Douglas Rooks: Labor on the cusp of revival

Since Democratic President Grover Cleveland signed the law proclaiming Labor Day in 1894, the holiday’s significance as a unique American observance has waxed and waned. Lord knows it’s time for a revival and one might — just might — be here. There are signs. President Biden is the first self-proclaimed friend of labor in the […]

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