Matt Junker

Mainer. Sports Editor @bangordailynews. Formers include @OnlineSentinel @LakesRegWeekly and office of @SenAngusKing.

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As a tireless investigative reporter who never shies away from the tough stories, I can confirm that baby moose are adorable.

[Susan Young @SusanYoungMaine]

So, I wrote a thing today (and launched a new column). Seemed like a good time to speak up. https://t.co/0htviGC8eZ

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“It was like I witnessed 80 funerals all at once,” Seamans said. “These people saying goodbye to their boyfriends, their fathers, their husbands, not knowing if they’re ever going to see them again."

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Editorial: Michael Seamans has seen a lot over the course of his 16-year career as a photojournalist. But he has never seen anything quite like the brutal invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/5Bb54bqwAs

[Susan Young @SusanYoungMaine]

Join me and @benbragdon at 11 for @mainecalling when we'll discuss the news of March. A lot happened this month. #mepolitics

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"As peace and windows shatter, I am trying really hard — despite the awful tightness in my chest — to remain hopeful."

[Valerie Royzman @valerieroyzman]

Anger. Dread. Guilt. Utter helplessness. Feeling it all. Wishing I could hold my family. Clinging to hope. For them. #Ukraine

https://t.co/7tkJT0mpCP

[David Begnaud @DavidBegnaud]

A devastatingly effective, fair and fact based interview by an Irish journalist with Russian’s ambassador to Ireland. “Why should our government entertain your presence here when you’re acting as an apologist for slaughter.”

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“I knew if I could find the rhythm of whatever I was experiencing, that I could do all of my work and know who I am, keep trying to get to that core of who I am."

[Bill Trotter @billtrotter]

Very sad to report that artist and book illustrator Ashley Bryan died yesterday at the age of 98. Maine has lost a true creative force and a wonderful man. https://t.co/lll1g6wy1U

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“But we cannot, in my view, continue to spread contaminaments knowingly on agricultural land and elsewhere,” Bennett continued. “We just need to say, ‘Stop it.’”

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Editorial: Nobody should pretend it’s easy to deal with these “forever chemicals” that might as well be called “everywhere chemicals. https://t.co/6n9jx75dUz

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Friday Night Lights

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It's still the first week of January and I think we've already reached our yearly cap on bird puns. Or perhaps 2022 will be a year of soaring to new heights.

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Editorial: "This Steller’s sea eagle, though perhaps not a stellar navigator, has clearly found a place in people’s hearts." https://t.co/CcOix9ddQI

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@NatalieAnneW So, you’re not over it?

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I hope they relish this moment

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The Raye's Mustard Mill Museum announced that the Hutchins family, longtime owners of the Dead River Company, donated a Dead River building with an appraised value of $157,000.

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"To recognize honest differences of opinion, and to make serious effort to get other people’s point of view"

"To ask no privileges for ourselves we are not willing to accord to others"

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"In the U.S., Baxter’s proclamation came near the beginning of the so-called Roaring ’20s, a time of rapid change and innovation," the BDN editorial board writes.
https://t.co/jwwoxRYLlW

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Also all states should let students name the snow plows: https://t.co/ouEPjd4VG9

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Send in Snowbegone Kenobi and Jennifer Snowpez

[Manu Raju @mkraju]

“Apparently they don’t have snow plows,” Leahy says as he enters the Senate for a brief session. “We can lend them some from Vermont.”

[The Birdist @TheBirdist]

Today a lobsterman is taking passengers out for rides to see the bird -- the only way to get a look as its been perched on the backside of an island for several hours. So cool.

[Jessica Piper @jsscppr]

Maine saw some of the greatest population growth due to migration of any US state over the past year.

But that figure obscured some other troubling population trends - namely, births were the lowest they have been since at least 1960.
https://t.co/j34PChvcCL

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“You’ve probably heard it takes a village to raise children. These kids in particular need a very specific type of village,” Mackenzie said. “Starting in 2020, our villages were destroyed for all of these kids, just like mine.”

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Eli is an example of the dozens of Maine children with behavioral and intellectual disabilities waiting for appropriate placement and a symptom of a national health care staffing crisis.

https://t.co/Yk1WZXzBCa

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Apparently my family’s theme for Christmas this year is “Tests and Tucci”

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Every day is Festivus when you’re an editorial writer

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Trooper Tyler Harrington found the man in a ditch, who was suffering from severe hypothermia and frostbite. https://t.co/iOupdikRW6