Only the people of Scarborough should get to decide if drunken driving disqualifies Flaherty.

A story released by the Maine Center for Public Interest Reporting last week should give pause to anyone who spent the past budget season or two worried over the loss of teaching positions or cuts to municipal services. According to the article, the latest economic recession has knocked off track the state’s plan to pay […]

The United States views health care as a commodity, a product with market value. As long as health care is treated as merchandise to be bought and sold, both the bleeding hearts and the supply-side conservatives should recognize that there will always be some kind of allocation. If profit is involved, there will never be […]

Back in March 2000, Katie Couric had a colonoscopy in living color on network television. Ever since then it has been socially acceptable to talk about things like colons in places like this. So, with a tip of the hat and a “thank you” to Katie, I offer the following. My doctor said I needed […]

Back in March 2000, Katie Couric had a colonoscopy in living color on network television. Ever since then it has been socially acceptable to talk about things like colons in places like this. So, with a tip of the hat and a “thank you” to Katie, I offer the following. My doctor said I needed […]

Lucius Flatley opened this week’s coffee seminar by recommending a book, an American novel published 50 years ago this past July 11. According to him, this little novel was the finest book many would ever read. “To Kill a Mockingbird,” he claimed, qualified for intelligentsia approval – those limp-wristed critics who looked for hidden meaning […]

The Maine Department of Education this week released high school graduation rates calculated for the first time using a soon-to-be-required federal formula. By requiring all states to use the same method when reporting graduation rates, officials hope to bring some consistency to a process that before varied widely from state to state, making it difficult […]

The Maine Department of Education this week released high school graduation rates calculated for the first time using a soon-to-be-required federal formula. By requiring all states to use the same method when reporting graduation rates, officials hope to bring some consistency to a process that before varied widely from state to state, making it difficult […]

Last week, the state Department of Health and Human Services announced it had selected three nonprofit groups to operate Maine’s first six medical marijuana dispensaries, bringing more into focus just how medical marijuana will be grown and distributed to patients in Maine. In Cumberland County, known as District 2, the license was awarded to Northeast […]