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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 far more competent than ever before. To have confidence in the American Jobs Plan, it is not enough ...

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 which this country now faces are staggering, both at home and abroad,” Kennedy said that day, asking ...

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 progress until about 1921. Bemidji had a very different look from today or even the prior decade. Sev...

© 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 her frequent appearances on CNN and other networks, she knows how to break down an argument and make...

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 leader as a result of the apparent victories by the two Democrats this week in Senate runoff electi...