By Matthew Gagnon “Ahead of the Ugandan election,” the official Twitter policy account said in a tweet on Tuesday, “we’re hearing reports that Internet service providers are being ordered to block social media and messaging apps.

By David Farmer The realities of the failed insurrection last week are still hard to comprehend.

By Nancy Battick We all hope to see the end of COVID-19 sometime this year and, we hope, a return to something approaching normalcy.

By Matthew Gagnon, bangor Daily News Staff This morning, I experienced a blitzkrieg of phone calls, text messages, and emails from friends and colleagues, all eager to unload their frustrations after the Georgia Senate disaster.

By David Farmer Gov.

By Matthew Gagnon Trust.

By David Farmer Members of the Trump administration are rarely honest — particularly when talking about the Democratic Party.

By Lara Clark and Carolina King As one of the longest and most challenging years of our lives draws to a close — with the promise of a vaccine offset by the gravity of staggering infection rates and devastating loss of loved ones — we would like to take a moment to reflect on the amazing resilience of our Red Cross partners.

By Matthew Gagnon A trillion here, a trillion there.

By David Farmer After handing over my paycheck to the grocery store on Monday night, it was clear how much my family’s life revolves around food.

By Nancy Battick Time is flying by and as we near the end of this year and face a new one I usually do a column about genealogical resolutions including making more time to research, entering your research in your software, taking care of your family photos and labeling them, filing documents if you do that, exploring a new genealogical website, and trying to attend a local genealogical group or a conference.

By Matthew Gagnon With the year we are having, people everywhere are turning to the warm, comforting embrace of tradition to get them through the tough times.

By David Farmer The proposition was one of those that’s hard to decipher — was it real or was it a satirical comment on the times? After four years of a President Donald Trump, is there even such a thing as satire any longer? “We could meet in the Civic Center parking lot in Augusta and exchange gifts,” was the idea floated.

By Matthew Gagnon After years of making bold predictions according to the year in question — 19 predictions in 2019, 20 in 2020, etc .

By David Farmer Trees, it seems, are smarter than U.

By Shirar Patterson and Courtney Yeager The COVID-19 pandemic has dealt a devastating economic blow to our state.

By Jen and Bob Montgomery-Rice Giving back has never been more important to our community than during this pandemic and there are plenty of options to pledge your support.

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