— Eric Moran, who gave Jake Brown of Palermo $25,000 in 2023 to work on his Bath home. A judge found that Brown owed clients $2.5 million for shoddy and incomplete work for which he was paid up front, but the state attorney general’s office inked a deal allowing him to pay back just $350,000.
A male bluebird, left, brings food to his mate who has been busy with nest-building duties on May 28, 2024, in Freeport. Credit: Robert F. Bukaty / AP
From the Opinion Pages
“Israel could not accomplish its mission of exterminating Palestinians without U.S. complicity. We taxpayers have paid for the slaughter and, for the most part, remained shamefully silent.”