In recent months, this paper and others in Maine and even outside of the state have reported on the alleged sexual abuse of minors by at least two former police officers in Biddeford. Those who have come forward said that when they were young teenagers, they were molested by men who were officers with the […]

Enduring an hour-long commute to work every morning would be an absolute nightmare. The monotony of the highway, the too-slow passage of time … heck, even talk radio would get old after an hour. By my second week on the job, I’d be at the library, checking out audiobooks on the history of fertilizer, just […]

It’s a start. A small one. Hillary Clinton answered six questions in five minutes during a campaign stop in Iowa, making no news and giving prepackaged statements we’ve heard many times before. She has to do a lot better than that. Neither the press ”“ nor her Republican opponents ”“ will let Clinton get away […]

Saco Citizens for Sensible Government (SCSG) supports the proposed 50 cent increase in the mill rate for Saco schools for 2015-16, and recommends that the public vote yes to accept the school budget on June 9. For a $200,000 home the tax increase for the schools amounts to $100. Almost all of the increase involves […]

In January 2007, shortly after entering the race for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination, Hillary Clinton traveled to Iowa, where one of the first questions she faced was about her vote to authorize the war in Iraq. “If we had known then what we know now, there never would have been a vote,” Clinton said, […]

Over the years I have found that many folks don’t understand the difference between deficits and the debt, and friends have encouraged me to write about it. I hope you will not stop reading at this point because you think this is going to be way too complicated or boring. The truth is this is […]