We the people have rights, and it’s time we make ourselves heard. It is such a great injustice to keep silent and keep this hidden. This is an ongoing problem, and a very serious one as well. You see, it affects us all. Landlords are not taking responsibility, yet they are taking our money and […]
Journal Tribune Opinion
Food pantry gives thanks
“No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.” — Charles Dickens Truly by the generosity of many, some of whom are mentioned here, the road traveled and the burden carried has been made lighter. They bare names like: Steve Howe, Richmond Gerrish, Pat Binette, Lloyd Hunt, Rita Shaw, Ron and […]
Lauzon best choice for state rep
I was born and raised in Biddeford. Go Tigers! My mother lived in Biddeford her whole life until I took her into my new home in New Gloucester last year. She worked in the mills folding towels. My father, who recently passed, lived in Biddeford most of his life, and worked in a factory to […]
The old-school, pragmatic politics of millennials
There was a time, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, when everything about the baby boomers – their cultural identity, their sex lives, their voting patterns – was chewed over in the public prints and on television. It became so dreary an exercise that Bob McGilvray, the I’ve-seen-everything news editor in the Washington bureau […]
Editorial Roundup
The Times Record (Maine), Aug. 10: We are glad, and also a little relieved, to read Susan Collins’s denouncement of Donald Trump in the Washington Post this week. “This is not a decision I make lightly, for I am a lifelong Republican,” the Republican senator wrote in the Post on Monday. “But Donald Trump does […]
Many questions, no responses
In June of this year, the Concerned Citizens of Biddeford sent dozens of requests to City Hall inquiring how tax dollars were being spent in the downtown area as well as the money going to various nonprofits. We were surprised by the arrogance of our elected officials when we were denied each and every request. […]
Real police reform requires national policing standards
Does the U.S. Justice Department have a form template it uses when reporting on its civil rights investigations of police departments? It sure seems like it does. Because there are disturbing similarities between the DOJ’s report on the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) released this week and the reports the DOJ released on the Ferguson Police […]
Commitment to affordable housing must start at the local level
Everyone agrees that affordable housing is critical – for seniors who want to live independently in their communities, for young people who want to return or stay in Maine, and for new families looking to plant their roots. Saco held a conference on this very topic back in June. I said then, and I’d like […]