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The Future of Healthcare in Maine
By: Chris Hedgpeth As you’re sitting on the couch watching BoJack Horseman one night, you start to feel a dull pain right around your belly button. At first you think it’s existential dread, but as it begins to migrate down and to the right, it becomes increasingly more sharp. You throw up. Before long you’re… Read more
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They Took Our Jobs!
By: Jamil Roberts Many years ago, Howard Burpee who taught in the Computer Science Department and taught a Senior Seminar class in the department approached the Beacon asking about the possibilities of his students submitting a column that explored technology interests. The Beacon was more than happy to help this become a reality. Last spring Howard Burpee retired.… Read more
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Joe Biden’s Great Big Time Law Firm
By: Chris Hedgpeth Everything is bigger in Texas. Except the pool of candidates in the third Democratic presidential debate. Instead of another two night affair involving 20 people, the debate at Texas Southern University was over in three hours and featured a scant 10 candidates. Conspicuously absent were Tulsi Gabbard and Marianne Williamson, both of… Read more
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From the Desk
By: Celina Simmons Three weeks into the semester and the pressure is on. By now, you and I should be no strangers to a full schedule. After all, isn’t that what we signed up for? First and foremost, I’d like to welcome you back to another semester at the lovely SMCC. And for those new… Read more
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The Eyeing
By: Liam Woodworth-Cook It is said in the world of photography one doesn’t “take” a photograph, but “makes” a photograph. The distinction is in the capturing, the striking moment when light is sealed within the camera’s walls. Likewise, one makes a poem, harvesting choice words to describe or explain a scene, feeling or event. Sunsets… Read more
