In a recent television interview, Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini, head of one of America’s largest health insurers, commented that selling insurance across state lines is “an outdated concept” in the discussion of healthcare reform. Bertolini went on to explain the rationale for his statement: “Insurance products are now tightly aligned with networks, so buying an […]

Christian psychologist David Myers, in his writing and speaking about happiness, has suggested that long-term human happiness is not particularly dependent on our wealth or health. If you tell him that a year ago one person won millions of dollars in the lottery and another became paralyzed, you’ve given him no sense of their current […]

Dear Editor, With all the difficult news we read each day it’s nice to share some good news. The Saco Community Garden, begun in 2009, continues to thrive with the commitment of gardeners, volunteers, the Saco Parks & Recreation Department and local sponsors — a true community effort. This year we gardeners are especially grateful for the support […]

I am referencing your artilce on the front page of the Journal Tribune dated June 30, 2017 (cemetery restoration etc.). From the age of 5- to almost 23-years-old, I lived at 195 and 204 Pool St. in close proximity to the cemetery in question as well as to all the amenities that Clifford Park had […]

“The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive.” Those were the weighty words of President Trump when he spoke to an enthusiastic crowd in Poland. Though they sound more like the work of his speechwriters than of the tweeter-in-chief, they were both momentous and generally ignored by the […]

Monopoly is great when you’re winning. You can plop your wingtips up on your ottoman and chomp on your imaginary cigar with glee as you gloat over your prize properties and generally act like an all-around ass. When you’re losing, it’s intolerable. It’s like slow starvation at the hands of a sadistic dungeon master, only […]

One of the more frequent questions Legislators heard this past session was “Follow the will of the People” in regards to the recently passed Referendum questions last November. I’ve written previously about the problems that the “Citizen Initiated Referendum” questions pose when used to enact or create laws. We encountered several this past session. With […]

Both our media and our politicians tell us that it is a terrible time to rear children. As parents, we are tempted to sing, “Why can’t they be like we were, perfect in every way?” We understand totally when one novelist says, “What a chance we take when we raise children. What a terrible chance,” […]

My 11-year-old son was a member of the 2017 Cumberland/North Yarmouth Little League champion Red Sox, and I was one of the coaches. It was my second involvement with a Little League championship team. The first was in 1966, when I rode the bench for the Easton (CT) Little League champion Hawks. Oddly, after the […]