I am not normally a person who writes letters to editors, particularly about issues as controversial as the RSU budget. So why have I written this one? Because I feel compelled to say, to people on both sides of the issue, that we have to stop bashing each other and start working together to give […]

I am not normally a person who writes letters to editors, particularly about issues as controversial as the RSU budget. So why have I written this one? Because I feel compelled to say, to people on both sides of the issue, that we have to stop bashing each other and start working together to give […]

If Gov. Paul LePage really wanted to reduce the size of state government, he’d lose 50 pounds. If LePage truly wished to make Maine more attractive to corporations and tourists, he’d hire a plastic surgeon to get rid of his jowls. If the governor is to be believed about improving the state’s economy, he’d stop […]

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, the Maine health insurance Marketplace (Exchange) of ObamaCare opened. Despite the brouhaha, there are many people who have already benefited from parts of the law without their realizing it. The law, The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed in March 2010, immediately began to change the rules for health insurance […]

On Tuesday, Oct. 1, the Maine health insurance Marketplace (Exchange) of ObamaCare opened. Despite the brouhaha, there are many people who have already benefited from parts of the law without their realizing it. The law, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, signed in March 2010, immediately began to change the rules for health insurance […]

Sad week in the land of Zip Code 04074….Bob Taylor, 25-year 4 a.m. deliverer of the local daily paper to houses in Pleasant Hill and Higgins Beach area of town, dead, single-car crash, smashes into big tree on Spurwink…controversy continues over plover killed by dog at Pine Point Beach…Dottie McCann, one of the “Pine Point […]

Sad week in the land of Zip Code 04074….Bob Taylor, 25-year 4 a.m. deliverer of the local daily paper to houses in Pleasant Hill and Higgins Beach area of town, dead, single-car crash, smashes into big tree on Spurwink…controversy continues over plover killed by dog at Pine Point Beach…Dottie McCann, one of the “Pine Point […]

This time two years ago, Cumberland County voters faced a tough decision: Spend $34 million, plus an estimated $20 million in debt service, to renovate the Civic Center in Portland to make it more attractive and hospitable to event-goers, or withhold the capital infusion and watch as the concrete behemoth plodded along, losing money and […]