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Perspectives is part of the BDN Maine Network. Learn more. Connecting personal and public worlds. It’s always ourselves we find in the sea*. January 28, 2017. By James G. Blaine. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue, Ayn Rand (1964). This is the second in a series of responses to my recent post, Giving Very Small, reflections on hunger and homelessness in American cities not as detached statistics but as human encounters. You now prompt me to […]. Fifty-six yea...
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Opinion | Perspectives
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Perspectives is part of the BDN Maine Network. Learn more. Connecting personal and public worlds. Born in the Country. March 8, 2017. By James G. Blaine. The United States was born in the country and moved to the city. Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform Some years ago in a class on Environmental Issues and Social Justice, I assigned Jane Jacobs’ Cities First Rural Development Later a chapter from her book, The Economy of Cities. In a nutshell, Jacobs argues […]. Of Migrants, Immigrants and Refugees.
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“We Have No Words” | Perspectives
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Perspectives is part of the BDN Maine Network. Learn more. Connecting personal and public worlds. 8220;We Have No Words”. December 20, 2016. By James G. Blaine. Tom Northrop’s family has lived in Washington County, Pennsylvania, for more than 200 years, and it has owned and published the local newspaper,. The Washington Observer-Reporter,. Used with permission of Observer-Reporter. Like newspapers everywhere, the. It’s been, said Tom, a rough year. I stopped there last summer when I was traveling through...
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And so it begins | Perspectives
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Perspectives is part of the BDN Maine Network. Learn more. Connecting personal and public worlds. And so it begins. January 3, 2017. By James G. Blaine. Quis custodiet ipsos custodies? 8220;Who will guard the guards themselves? It was a holiday, the first one of the year, and who knew these guys would be at work, or even in town? By a vote of 119-74. If you find all that confusing, said Goodlatte, don’t worry. “The amendment builds upon and strengthens the existing Office of Congressional Ethic...It seem...
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Elegy in Black and White (Part 1) | Perspectives
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Perspectives is part of the BDN Maine Network. Learn more. Connecting personal and public worlds. Elegy in Black and White (Part 1). January 6, 2017. By James G. Blaine. The year was 1975, and Boston was under a federal court order to desegregate its public school system through a citywide busing program that was met by often-violent resistance in many of the city’s still solidly ethnic neighborhoods. I always believed it was lucky for me as well as Ty that I caught him that first afternoon. In one way o...
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November | 2016 | Perspectives
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Perspectives is part of the BDN Maine Network. Learn more. Connecting personal and public worlds. Monthly Archives: November 2016. In the Land of Ostriches. November 29, 2016. By James G. Blaine. Who needs newspapers when the president-elect can tweet directly to millions of Twitter followers news that is uncorrupted by the professional media? Questions in Search of Answers. November 25, 2016. By James G. Blaine. The Issue isn’t Being Fair, it’s Seeking the Truth. November 22, 2016. By James G. Blaine.
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September | 2016 | Perspectives
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Perspectives is part of the BDN Maine Network. Learn more. Connecting personal and public worlds. Monthly Archives: September 2016. Dispatch from Mexico City: Ponga esa Pared! September 30, 2016. By James G. Blaine. Put up that wall! A Wandering Mind: Thoughts on Language. September 28, 2016. By James G. Blaine. September 21, 2016. By James G. Blaine. Like many others, I experience the tension that Welsh poet Edward Thomas noted between the desire to ‘go on and on over the earth’ and the desire ‘to settl...
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December | 2016 | Perspectives
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Perspectives is part of the BDN Maine Network. Learn more. Connecting personal and public worlds. Monthly Archives: December 2016. Out Among the Stars (Johnny Cash). December 31, 2016. By James G. Blaine. What Would Jesus Say? December 22, 2016. By James G. Blaine. 8220;We Have No Words”. December 20, 2016. By James G. Blaine. Tom Northrop’s family has lived in Washington County, Pennsylvania, for more than 200 years, and it has owned and published the local newspaper, The Washington Observer-Reporter, s...
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Perspectives is part of the BDN Maine Network. Learn more. Connecting personal and public worlds. All posts by James G. Blaine. About James G. Blaine. Born in the Country. March 8, 2017. By James G. Blaine. Of Migrants, Immigrants and Refugees. March 6, 2017. By James G. Blaine. The Enemies of the People. February 24, 2017. By James G. Blaine. I think the press has to fit in somewhere in the mission statement, wrote a reader about the ongoing series to define a mission statement or describe a common myth...
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