"Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods – whatever your local risk, here's how to be more weather-ready, a recent article in The Conversation dovetails…
Read MoreDot’s Reading Room: Non-fungible Tokens
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Suddenly-at least to this person’s eye—a new term has come into the language, and into print. What, you may ask, is a…
Read MoreTexas and its recent cold weather problems are a long way from Bedford, but we’re not immune from the possibility-or even the…
Read MoreToday’s article from The Conversation says Congressional members who espouse extreme positions get a lot of airtime and exposure but their actual…
Read MoreDot’s Reading Room: How Age Diversity in a Presidential Cabinet could Affect Policies and Programs
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President Joe Biden says his top appointments were purposely chosen “to look like America.” Will his mix of ages have an impact…
Read MoreDot’s Reading Room ~ ‘The Conversation’ a Compendium of Research Papers from Various Universities
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For today I’m not calling your attention to a specific article but to an online source that I think is worth following.
It’s…
Read MoreAlthough Joe Biden won the US election last week, Donald Trump won a record-breaking 71 million votes. In Bedford, the incumbent president…
Read MoreWhat kinds of news stories would you expect to find in a publication called Maine Business Daily? Most likely you’d think there…
Read MoreIt’s October 1 and time for a “good read” recommendation. This article by Andrew Latham is worth your attention.
“How three prior pandemics…
Read MoreIf you’re interested in looking ahead to what the next months will bring during “life in the time of pandemic,” you may…
Read MoreDot’s Reading Room: Steve Coll in The New Yorker ~ The US Postal Service and the Upcoming Election
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Is the Postal Service Being Manipulated to Help Trump Get Reëlected? By Steve Coll in The New Yorker, July 29, 2020. Read…
Read MoreHere is a challenging article from The Atlantic’s national correspondent James Fallows, who asks Is This the Worst Year in Modern American…
Read More“In a crisis, what was once unthinkable can suddenly become inevitable. We’re in the middle of the biggest societal shakeup since the…
Read MoreIf you’ve ever thought to yourself ….”maybe Amazon is entirely TOO powerful,” here’s a story to cheer you. A startup called Bookshop…
Read MoreHere is a strongly worded and probably controversial “take” on the use of Federal stimulus money to support print newspapers during the…
Read MoreHere is an article that is helpful in understanding “the numbers” involved in the COVID-19 crisis.
The Correspondent is a Netherlands-based source now…
Read MoreIssue 3 ~ Dot’s Reading Room ~ January, 2020
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The Bedford Citizen's Board Member Emerita and Senior Copy Editor Dot Bergin scans the Internet for interesting publications about journalism and current…
Read MoreDot’s Reading Room
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Senior copy editor and board member emerita Dot Bergin is a unique resource for The Bedford Citizen.
Not only does she cover meetings…
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