‘It’s just getting worse’: anger in Maine over Trump’s trade war with close neighbor Canada
by Gaya Gupta in Bangor, Maine from US news | The Guardian on (#78N5Q)
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.
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