The World Health Organization on Tuesday reversed course from an earlier statement, and is recommending that people get booster shots as data show that boosters have helped to avoid an overwhelming tide of cases driven by the omicron variant.
“As Maine-centered as we are, we still believe we have a moral imperative to stand up for the Ukrainian people under mortal threat from an invading autocratic regime,” Todd Benoit, president of the BDN, writes. From March 8 to March 14, revenue from new Bangor Daily News digital subscriptions will be donated to Direct Relief Ukraine. Find out more here.
That announcement came as no surprise with the Maine governor’s race increasingly looking like it will be the first without a prominent third-party contender since 1982.
Sen. Susan Collins said her conversation with Ketanji Brown Jackson went well and that she trusted the committee overseeing her hearings would be “thorough and fair.”
Between 1975 and 2003, 145 of Bill Woodman’s cartoons appeared in The New Yorker and hundreds more in a variety of other national magazines and newspapers.
