Island Ad-Vantages
A ‘corona bump' for some food shippers
STONINGTON—After the St. Patrick’s Day rush, Stonington Seafood usually experiences a lull in online orders for kipper fillets and finnan haddie. Not this year. The COVID-19 pandemic created what owner Richard Penfold calls the “corona bump”—in sales, that is.
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4/30/2020
The Atlantic
THE BRAINIEST HITTER
Can Joey Votto outsmart age?
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
EXILE IN THE AGE OF MODI
How Hindu nationalism has trampled the founding idea of my country
10 min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
Being Friends With Philip Roth
During his last two decades, we spent thousands of hours in each other’s company. Ours was a conversation neither of us could have done without.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
Robert Stone's Dark Dream of America
His novelistic ambition to define the national condition is more relevant than ever.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
What China Wants
Chinese leaders’ combination of superiority and insecurity is growing more dangerous. The U.S. needs a new strategy to reflect that
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
“At 14, I Could've Pointed Out everybody Who Would Be Dead"
Nikki King grew up surrounded by the opioid epidemic. Now she's leading a novel and promising program to help people in remote areas.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
The Shark and The Shrimpers
After the BP oil spill, a well-known lawyer helped land a $2 billion settlement for gulf coast seafood-industry workers, including 42,000 vietnamese fishermen. Only one problem: they did'nt exist.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Atlantic
Childhood in an anxious age and the crisis of modern parenting
Imagine for a moment that the future is going to be even more stressful than the present. Maybe we don’t need to imagine this. You probably believe it. According to a survey from the Pew Research Center last year, 60 percent of American adults think that three decades from now, the U.S. will be less powerful than it is today. Almost two-thirds say it will be even more divided politically. Fifty-nine percent think the environment will be degraded. Nearly three-quarters say that the gap between the haves and have-nots will be wider. A plurality expect the average family’s standard of living to have declined. Most of us, presumably, have recently become acutely aware of the danger of global plagues.
10+ min |
May 2020
The Weekly Packet
Sedgwick may partner up to bring back alewife runs
$1.25 million grant-funded project
2 min |
4/23/2020
Island Ad-Vantages
Schools drop off nine days of meals for 190 families
STONINGTON—In two hours on Friday, April 17, nearly a thousand meals in brown boxes landed on driveways in Deer Isle, Stonington and Sedgwick. School staff and volunteers had loaded school buses with enough food to tide over 190 families during spring break and then delivered it to their homes. Community School District Superintendent Chris Elkington personally took eight boxes to four Isle Au Haut families on the mail boat that morning.
2 min |
4/23/2020
The Weekly Packet
Fab Lab, local mom making protective equipment
DEER ISLE—A peninsula woman and Haystack’s Fab Lab director are taking orders for personal protective equipment (PPE) from hospitals, ambulance corps, and congregate care facilities coping with the COVID-19 pandemic.
2 min |
4/23/2020
Reason magazine
How the Abolitionist Grandfathers of Modern Libertarianism Won by Losing and Lost by Winning
WHILE EUROPE WAS IN REVOLT, AMERICA HAD ITS OWN FREE SOIL REVOLUTION OF 1848.
10+ min |
June 2020
Reason magazine
IMMIGRANTS HAVE A RIGHT TO PRIVACY TOO
THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION has started forcibly collecting DNA samples from immigrants in detention and sending that information to an FBI criminal database called the Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) for permanent storage.
2 min |
June 2020
Reason magazine
In Zimbabwe, It's Crisis As Usual
A NEW ROUND OF HYPERINFLATION WAS TAKING A HEAVY TOLL ON DAILY LIFE, EVEN BEFORE THE CORONAVIRUS HIT.
10 min |
June 2020
Reason magazine
Joe Biden Won the Democratic Primary. But Bernie Sanders Won the Party.
TWO WEEKS BEFORE ordinary American life was completely upended by COVID-19, Joe Biden had effectively captured the Democratic primary nomination with a campaign that amounted to a single promise: a return to normalcy.
10+ min |
June 2020
Reason magazine
Traffic Stops in Black and White
Supreme Court imposed new limits on police authority to grill drivers during routine traffic stops last year, Bobbin Singh of the Oregon Justice Resource Center called the decision “incredibly important for communities of color.”
3 min |
June 2020
Reason magazine
WOODROW WILSON'S LIBERTARIAN LACKEYS
Beware the temptation to collaborate with the state.
6 min |
June 2020
Reason magazine
Vermin Supreme Says This Time, He's Serious
IN 2016, THE Libertarian Party’s presidential ticket, former Republican Govs. Gary Johnson and Bill Weld, had the most executive experience in the field.
3 min |
June 2020
Reason magazine
America Wasn't Ready for Coranavirus
Early takeaways from the country's response to a pandemic.
10+ min |
June 2020
Reason magazine
Union Justice Confidence
Did Louisiana enact a bogus health law as a pretext for banning abortion?
2 min |
June 2020
Mother Jones
Plan Bee
It’s time for the lawn to start kicking grass
3 min |
May/June 2020
Mother Jones
The Lady Killers
Why are so many women seeking escape through true crime podcasts?
10 min |
May/June 2020
Mother Jones
The Toughest Love
For nearly 50 years, the Delancey Street Foundation has offered an alternative to prison. But does the celebrated program really work?
10+ min |
May/June 2020
Mother Jones
Clickservative
Is Brad Parscale, the president’s 2020 campaign manager, a digital savant or just another opportunist cleaning up on trump?
10+ min |
May/June 2020
Mother Jones
We Are Huron
How a town in the heart of Trump country became a haven for refugees
10+ min |
May/June 2020
Island Ad-Vantages
Two storms in five days KO trees, power
THE ISLAND—A severe windstorm knocked out most of the Island’s power for nearly 22 hours from Monday night, April 13, to Tuesday afternoon, April 14.
2 min |
4/16/2020
The Weekly Packet
Spring storms wreak havoc here, ‘not too bad' there
Adding difficulty to staying at home
2 min |
4/16/2020
Island Ad-Vantages
One family, five children: the ups and downs of remote schooling
DEER ISLE—Five kids, a home-based business and a lobsterman husband equals a busy life on any usual day. Throw in an abrupt change to home-based learning, after schools closed in March and a stay-at-home directive was issued over COVID-19, and life became a lot busier for Deer Isle mom Ashley Oliver.
3 min |
4/16/2020
The Weekly Packet
American Legion Post 85 sells beach property
Toward ‘ultimate goal’ of preserving hall.
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