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Dot’s Reading Room: ‘Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, and floods’ and Bedford’s Hazard Mitigation Plan for Municpal Vulnerability Preparedness

by Dorothy Bergin
June 10, 2021
1 min read

"Hurricanes, wildfires, tornadoes, floods – whatever your local risk, here's how to be more weather-ready, a recent article in The Conversation dovetails…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Non-fungible Tokens

by The Bedford Citizen
April 6, 2021
1 min read

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…

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Climate Change ~ Blowing A Gale on a Chilly, Chilly Day

by The Bedford Citizen
March 2, 2021
1 min read

Texas and its recent cold weather problems are a long way from Bedford, but we’re not immune from the possibility-or even the…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Ideological Extremists Grab Media Attention and Distort Issue Debate

by The Bedford Citizen
February 16, 2021
1 min read

Today’s article from The Conversation says Congressional members who espouse extreme positions get a lot of airtime and exposure but their actual…

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Dot’s Reading Room: How Age Diversity in a Presidential Cabinet could Affect Policies and Programs

by The Bedford Citizen
February 9, 2021
1 min read

President Joe Biden says his top appointments were purposely chosen “to look like America.” Will his mix of ages have an impact…

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Dot’s Reading Room ~ ‘The Conversation’ a Compendium of Research Papers from Various Universities

by The Bedford Citizen
January 18, 2021
1 min read

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…

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Dot’s Reading Room – A Thought-Provoking Article from ‘The Correspondent’

by The Bedford Citizen
November 14, 2020
1 min read

Although Joe Biden won the US election last week, Donald Trump won a record-breaking 71 million votes. In Bedford, the incumbent president…

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Dot’s Reading Room: As Local News Dies, a Pay-for-Play Network Rises in Its Place

by The Bedford Citizen
October 21, 2020
1 min read

What kinds of news stories would you expect to find in a publication called Maine Business Daily? Most likely you’d think there…

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Dot’s Reading Room: How Prior Pandemics Triggered Massive Societal Shifts

by The Bedford Citizen
October 2, 2020
1 min read

It’s October 1 and time for a “good read” recommendation. This article by Andrew Latham is worth your attention.

“How three prior pandemics…

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Dot’s Reading Room ~ “The Road Ahead: Charting the Coronavirus Pandemic over the next 12 Months, and Beyond” ~ September 22, 2020

by The Bedford Citizen
September 22, 2020
1 min read

If you’re interested in looking ahead to what the next months will bring during “life in the time of pandemic,” you may…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Steve Coll in The New Yorker ~ The US Postal Service and the Upcoming Election

by The Bedford Citizen
July 29, 2020
1 min read

Is the Postal Service Being Manipulated to Help Trump Get Reëlected? By Steve Coll in The New Yorker, July 29, 2020. Read…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Is This the Worst Year in Modern American History?

by The Bedford Citizen
June 17, 2020
1 min read

Here is a challenging article from The Atlantic’s national correspondent James Fallows, who asks Is This the Worst Year in Modern American…

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Dot’s Reading Room: The Neoliberal Era is Ending. What Comes Next?

by The Bedford Citizen
May 19, 2020
1 min read

“In a crisis, what was once unthinkable can suddenly become inevitable. We’re in the middle of the biggest societal shakeup since the…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Nieman Lab Profiles a New Bookseller’s Challenge to Amazon

by The Bedford Citizen
May 13, 2020
1 min read

If you’ve ever thought to yourself ….”maybe Amazon is entirely TOO powerful,” here’s a story to cheer you.  A startup called Bookshop…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Politico asks, “Why waste stimulus money on newspapers?”

by The Bedford Citizen
April 23, 2020
1 min read

Here is a strongly worded and probably controversial “take” on the use of Federal stimulus money to support print newspapers during the…

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Dot’s Reading Room: Understanding “The Numbers” and COVID-19

by The Bedford Citizen
March 18, 2020
1 min read

Here is an article that is helpful in understanding “the numbers” involved in the COVID-19 crisis.

The Correspondent is a Netherlands-based source now…

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Issue 3 ~ Dot’s Reading Room ~ January, 2020

by The Bedford Citizen
January 22, 2020
2 mins read

The Bedford Citizen's Board Member Emerita and Senior Copy Editor Dot Bergin scans the Internet for interesting publications about journalism and current…

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Dot’s Reading Room

by The Bedford Citizen
October 8, 2019
1 min read

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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