Brain Rot 2: Legal Corruption, Cuomo Rascist AI Slop Edition

The term brain rot has been applied to LLMs and long covid but it’s also a useful term to describe the American legal corruption system in the Trump 2.0 era. I’ve written previously about the way the U.S. Supreme Court’s novel method of deciding...

Collab: By Town & Country FCU opens first space – Collab: TECH

PORTLAND — Collab: TECH by Town & Country FCU is a new innovation showcase that empowers the public to use current and emerging technologies for their financial wellbeing. The space, located at 59 Middle St. in Portland, gives the community...

Utah Lands In Top 5 For Safest States In The U.S.

Utah has earned a spot among the top five safest states in the nation, according to new research by WalletHub, which ranked the Beehive State fifth overall in its 2025 report on the Safest States in America. The study compared all 50 states across...

West Side Pastor Named To Time Magazine’s List Of 100 Rising Stars

WEST GARFIELD PARK — A West Side pastor who is building a center for “arts and activism” has been named one of the world’s top 100 rising influential voices. Marshall Hatch Jr., pastor at New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist Church at 4031 W....

Frenchville plans special town meeting on funding requests

Frenchville officials are pictured here during the town's annual meeting on March 18. A special town meeting will be held on Nov. 6. (Chris Bouchard | The County) FRENCHVILLE, Maine – Funding for grader repairs, a new UTV, and opening a one-year...

How Did Staying Hydrated Become A Thing? (Reheat)

Christina Cauterucci: I, actually, remember this very vividly because it, actually, turned into a fight, one of probably the top ten times we were annoyed with each other that year. Dan Pashman: This is Christina Cauterucci. She’s a senior writer...

New England city named safest in the U.S., 10 others crack top 100

A New England community has been named the safest city in the country in a new report. Finance site Wallethub released its list of Safest Cities in America for 2025 and Warwick, Rhode Island, was ranked No. 1. Also cracking the top five was...

URI on finalist team of National Science Foundation in Regional Innovation Engines competition

Photo, top: Fiber optics – At the heart of the NSPIRE strategy is mobilizing technological innovation like that found at URI; here Alexandra Runyan ’23, a former URI ocean engineering graduate student, views the seafloor in real time using a novel...

It really is hard to see how we survive this

Up until inside the past decade or so, I always fancied myself a fairly affable guy. Growing up in New Jersey and working in newspapers as an adult demanded a certain degree of tolerance and a wicked sense of humor. Everybody had their flaws, but...

North Atlantic right whale, one of the world’s rarest, sees encouraging population growth

A pair of North Atlantic right whales interact at the surface of Cape Cod Bay on March 27, 2023, in Massachusetts. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File, NOAA permit # 21371) PORTLAND, Maine — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an...

105 Bigfoot sightings in Idaho: Creature has excellent taste in real estate

For context, a study shows Idahoans have better odds of seeing Bigfoot than winning most lottery jackpots. Still better odds than finding parking in Downtown Boise. IDAHO, USA — Idaho has been scientifically ranked as the eighth most likely place...

How ‘Big Tent’ Are Democrats Willing to Go?

For the first few months of his U.S. Senate campaign, Graham Platner looked like just the kind of candidate that many Democrats say they want right now. The party has been bleeding working-class men for decades, including in the two elections it...

One of world's rarest whales that makes Atlantic its home grows in population

PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — One of the rarest whales on the planet has continued an encouraging trend of population growth in the wake of new efforts to protect the giant animals, according to scientists who study them. The North Atlantic right whale...

Meet Graham Platner's Wife, Amy Gertner, Former Art Teacher, Now Manages His Oyster Farming Business

Graham Platner, an oyster farmer and a military veteran, has been making a lot of headlines since it was announced that he will be running as a Democrat primary in the Maine U.S. Senate. People are surprised to see a common man fighting in the...

The Taliban Drove This Afghan Trumpeter Into Exile. He Still Dreams of Home

A s the Taliban entered Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 15, 2021, Qudrat Wasefi, a resolute 22-year-old trumpeter, flung open the windows of his music school’s empty wood-paneled studio and started to play as loudly as he could. “I thought it was my...

These 2 states will determine if the U.S. slips into a recession while one more enters the danger zone, top economist says

The U.S. economy is still managing to avoid a recession, but just barely, with its fate likely resting on California and New York, according to Moody’s Analytics chief economist Mark Zandi. In social media posts on Wednesday, he reiterated his...

Where in North America Are You Most Likely to Spot Bigfoot?

In honor of National Sasquatch day on October 20th, we found where in North America you are most likely to spot the mysterious figure. By comparing Bigfoot sightings per population, recency, forest coverage, and climate, we identified where the...

Eli’s Market honored as Chamber’s Business of the Year

DOVER-FOXCROFT — In just three years since assuming full ownership of the grocery store in downtown Guilford, the former Goulette’s IGA and Whitney’s Market, Eli’s Market and owner Eli Dunfee have been chosen as the 2025 Piscataquis Chamber of...

Decoding e-Commerce Laws, e-Gazette, e-Contracts and Misanthropy: India’s First Mass Surveillance, Mass Spying and Unending Census Case -Part 13

(But persons who possess neither faith nor knowledge, and who are of an indecisive nature, suffer a downfall) (For the indecisive souls, there is no happiness either in this world or the next.) - Chapter 4, Verse 40, The Bhagavad Gita “When the...

Trump offshore drilling plan faces fierce opposition in Congress

Lawmakers are girding for a fight against President Donald Trump’s apparent plans to open up the Atlantic and Pacific coastlines to offshore drilling. In interviews Thursday, Democrats called the idea “not lawful,” a “huge mistake” and “absolutely...