Matt Gagnon discusses his impending departure to drop his child 1,900 miles away, expressing mixed feelings about the trip and the long-term separation. He mentions his son’s upcoming internship and the possibility of visits during holidays. Matt reflects on the common trend in Maine where young people leave and rarely return, sharing his own experience of moving to Washington, DC, and the limited time spent with his parents before their deaths.
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Rebecca Grover is the Director of Communications and Government/Public Relations. She joins Matt to talk about the upcoming repairs of the Maine Turnpike’s overpass on Forest Avenue and how it will affect drivers, bikers, and pedestrians.
President Donald Trump says he will slap a 100% tax on movies made outside the United States — a vague directive aimed at protecting a business that America already dominates.
Democratic and Republican congressional leaders are heading to the White House for a meeting with President Donald Trump on Monday in a late effort to avoid a government shutdown, but both sides have shown hardly any willingness to budge from their entrenched positions.
Police officers walked amid the burned out ruins of a Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints church in Michigan on Monday, a day after a former Marine opened fire during a crowded service, killing at least four people, then set the building ablaze.
Assata Shakur, a Black liberation activist who was given political asylum in Cuba after her 1979 escape from a U.S. prison where she had been serving a life sentence for killing a police officer, has died, her daughter and the Cuban government said.