Democratic lawmakers in Maine may have missed their chance to publicly censure Gov. Paul LePage, the firebrand Republican leader who made headlines last month for leaving an expletive-laden voicemail on a political foe's phone and claiming the state's drug problems are chiefly fueled by minorities coming across the state line.
According to a Bangor Daily News report, a "partial alliance" involving elected Democrats and Senate President Mike Thibodeau, R-Winterport, dissolved ahead of Labor Day weekend, effectively canceling the opportunity to hold a special legislative session that would have given lawmakers a public forum to condemn LePage.
AMHERST — Students at the University of Massachusetts' flagship campus are going ape over a recent email from resident assistants ordering them not to crack jokes about Harambe, the fallen Cincinnati gorilla who happened to have a very similar name as that of a designated African heritage student living area.
"We wanted to take a moment to address some phrases that are being written on the whiteboards — specifically ones involving 'Harambe,'" read an email sent over Labor Day weekend to freshmen students living at UMass-Amherst's Sycamore Hall. "We understand that social media has been popularizing Harambe in some crude ways, which may appear as funny to groups of people.
