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Michelle Weaver is a news writer for the Bergen Newspaper Group. She has been writing professionally for over three years, and she loves her job because she gets to tell people's stories—whether they're a student who just made the honor roll, or a new business owner who just opened their doors.

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Executive Director – Portland Symphony Orchestra

Portland Symphony Orchestra (PSO) invites dynamic and enterprising leaders with a passion for music to apply for the role of Executive Director of this highly respected regional orchestra. The Executive Director will lead the entire PSO team – musicians, staff, and Board – in charting a path for continuing impact and artistic achievement as the […]

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How did the UK Supreme Court define a woman and what happens now?

LONDON — In a judgment with far-reaching implications, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a woman is someone born biologically female and that transgender women are excluded from that legal definition. The ruling was cheered by some feminists who have campaigned to safeguard rights for women on the basis of biological sex. Trans rights

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A Confidence Coach Shares 5 Steps to Live Your Most Vibrant Life

I used to overthink everything—what to say in meetings, how to present myself in new social settings, whether my opinions were even worth sharing. It’s why I long found comfort in etiquette: a set of rules that felt like a safe roadmap through uncertainty. But as I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that real confidence isn’t

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Vermont maple syrup makers face uncertainty amid Canada and China tariff chaos

MORGAN, Vt. — Making maple syrup in New England’s fickle spring weather can be an unpredictable business. Now President Donald Trump’s ever-changing tariff policies are adding anxiety about an industry that depends on multinational trade. “Any kind of disruption with our cross border enterprise, we feel it,” said Jim Judd, a fourth-generation sugarer who owns

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Bernstein, Balanchine, Ellington and the Waning of “Soft Power”

Kabalevsky contratulates Bernstein Today’s online Persuasion/The American Purpose runs an essay of mine building on the growing awareness that “soft power” diplomacy, long vital to American foreign policy, seems suddenly in abeyance. Referencing the three most potent cultural ambassadors to the USSR during the Cold War, I write in part:  If American diplomacy cannot today deploy

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Two Fannie Mae Multifamily execs set to depart amid fraud shakeup

Two of Fannie Mae Multifamily’s top brass, Rob Levin and Dan Dresser, are out at the mortgage giant, according to sources familiar with the matter.  Levin was head of multifamily customer engagement, and Dresser was the vice president of multifamily capital markets and pricing. Dresser had been at the agency since 2006, while Levin joined

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