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The BDN Opinion section operates independently and does not set news policies or contribute to reporting or editing articles elsewhere in the newspaper or on聽bangordailynewsRobert Klose is a four-time winner of a Maine Press Association award for opinion writing.A recent Bangor Daily News articleaddressed the improvements being made to the Pickering Square bus hub. This is a good thing, but I note that this addresses only local bus service within Bangor and the surrounding are air force 1 a. Bangor gaping hole is its lack of a long-distance land connection to downtown.Let me illustrate the need by way adidas samba of example. I recently had a visit from a friend who had t yeezy mx aken the Greyhound bus to Bangor from Boston. It was his first trip to the Queen City. He arrived toward midnight. When he called, I asked him where he was. His response: Some parking lot. It turned out that his first glimpse of the Bangor area was a park-and-ride near the Odlin Road and the Interstate. He felt nothing if not forlorn. And yet, in a sense, he was fortunate: Greyhound main Bangor stop is actually in Hermon. Behind the Dysart truck stop. Once deposited there, the traveler is on his own, miles from downtown. The Concord Coach bus doesn ;t offer much of an improvement 鈥?it discharges passengers almost three miles from the city center.It wasn ;t always like this. Until 2012, Greyhound was located in the heart of downtown. Then it began a nationwide program of shif Dtly Hermon 12U team earns summer slam crown
RIYADH, Saudi Arabia 鈥?A high-profile economic forum in Saudi Arabia began on Tuesday in Riyadh, the kingdoms first major event on the world stage since the killing of writer Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul earlier this month.Khashoggis death loomed large over the start of the event, known as the Future Investment Initiative, which coincided with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogans claim Tuesday that Saudi officials murdered Khashoggi in their consulate after plotting his death for days. The Turkish leader demanded the kingdo owala water bottle m reveal the identities of all involved in the killing, regardless of rank.Saudi Arabia, which for weeks maintained Khashoggi had left the consulate, on Saturday for the first time acknowledged he was killed there in a fistfi nike af ght. Turkish media and officials say a 15-member Saudi team was flown in to kill Khashoggi and accosted the writer in the consulate, cutting off his fingers before killing and dismembering the 59-year-old Washington Post columnist who wrote critically about Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.Prince Mohammed did not attend the start of the Riyadh forum. International pressure is mounting against him and critics suspect he ordered Khashoggis killing or at the least had knowledge of it.As the conference opened, Saudi Energy Minister Khalid Al-Falih described the journalists yeezy killing as abhorrent in his speech. Some of the forums keynote speakers and numerous Western executives and officials had canceled plan
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