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WASHINGTON ?President Donald Trump@ days in office are numbered. But he@ already stopped doing much of his job.In the last three weeks, a bomb went off in a major city and the president said nothing about it. The coronavirus su stanley espana rged to horrifying new levels of illness and death in the U.S. without Trump acknowledging the awful milestones. A violent mob incited by the president@ own words chanted for Mike Pence@ lynching at the U.S. Capitol and Trump made no effort to re yeezy ach out to his vice president. Trump only belatedly ordered flags flown at half-staff to honor an officer who gave his life defending the Capitol, and couldn@stanley termo 8217;t be bothered to describe the officer@ actions.The transgressions, big and small ?of norms, of leadership, of human decency ?cast a pall over his final days in office, and, in the view of even close advisers speaking privately, have indelibly stained his legacy. A half-dozen current administration officials expressed dismay at the president@ action@ in recent weeks, speaking on the condition of anonymity because they are still working for Trump.Even after losing the election, President Trump had the opportunity to leave the White House with his head held high, celebrating achievements like the COVID-19 vaccine, progress in the Middle East, and the vibrant pre-pandemic economy fueled by tax reform, said GOP operative Michael Steel, a onetime aide to former House Speaker John Boehner. 82 Xcqg Ex-finance director of Women Unlimited sentenced to 13 months for stealing more than $100,000
BUCKSPORT, Maine ?A new seafood bagging plant is open in the towns industrial park, and the company that runs it is looking to assert itself in Maines growing mussel-farming market.Pemaquid Mussel Farms opened its mussel-bagging operation at Buckstown Heritage Park in mid-December, said Carter Newell, founder and managing member of the mussel farms limited liabilit stanley shop y corporation, which is based in Damariscotta.Newells business grows hundreds of thousands of pounds of mussels at any one time on a dozen rafts in 100 feet of water about three miles off the coast, then brings them to adidas yeezy@Bucksport for bagging and cold storage. His goal: To build a crop of 1 million pounds of mussels annua af1 lly and capture part of what he and industry observers call a growing and lucrative market in farmed mussels. <Bucksport>salmon farm expected to break ground next spring]So far, four people are working at the mussel-bagging operation, Newell said.Canadian mussels grown off Prince Edward Island currently have a larger market share in the U.S. than Maine-produced mussels. In 2015, Canadian producers sold 25.9 million pounds of mussels in the U.S., compared with 14.4 million sold by Maine producers, according to a 65-page study co-authored by the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland.Credit: Nick Sambides Jr. | BDNThe Canadian market for mussels in the U.S. is expected to grow, reaching 30.6 million pounds by 2030, said Chris Vonderweidt, the institutes aquaculture program manager.But that repres
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