Tractors stand at the ready along rolling wild blueberry barrens Downeast, where fields of naked stems offer no hint of the glorious techno-color display to come. By late spring, roughly 47,000 acres across Washington and Hancock counties will be carpeted in white blossoms before bursting into tiny blueberries. But new federal immigration policies and ramped-up…
Tag: Project 2025
Opinion: Fascism is on the ballot
This column is about the importance of voting this Tuesday. I was gonna start it with a story about how in my first race for elected office I lost by 24 votes. How, in the weeks after the election, people hadn’t realized Election Day had passed (it was a May election) and I had dozens…