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‘It’s just getting worse’: anger in Maine over Trump’s trade war with close neighbor Canada
President’s tariffs have hurt fishers, loggers and others in a state with deep bonds to Canada, will voters show their displeasure in the midterms? It was an ideal summer to cut trees. The weather in Maine’s Penobscot county, one of the most heavily forested counties in a state dense with trees, was warm and dry. Yet even as the county’s wood had grown to an ideal size to harvest, the machines Molly London typically uses sat idle. Continue reading...
8 min read · 26 Sep 2026
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