The outdoors is a big part of my life. My family and I enjoy hunting, hiking, and fishing all over the great state of Maine. We’re not alone: According to the Outdoor Industry Association, outdoor recreation is responsible for 65,000 Maine jobs and over $5 billion per year for Maine’s economy. That makes outdoor recreation […]

Everyone’s got their own idea of what truly constitutes the end of summer. There’s an official date, of course, but nobody really goes by that; usually it’s Labor Day that people have in mind, or the day they change out of their palm-tree-speckled Bermuda shorts and into their boring ol’ khakis, ready for a good […]

I am not the first and won’t be the last to remark on how utterly bizarre aspects of this campaign season are. Let’s start with the fact that there were some serious adults with actual executive experience and plausible capacity for moral leadership in the mix not long ago as potential general-election candidates. But they […]

While Hillary Clinton was preparing to deliver a big speech portraying Donald Trump as a racist, a figure from Clinton’s recent unhappy past – Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the House Select Committee on Benghazi – added a new word to the 25-year vocabulary of Clinton scandals: BleachBit. That is the name of a publicly-available […]