The image some conservatives have of Greg Orman, the wealthy businessman running as an independent against veteran Republican Sen. Pat Roberts here in Kansas, is that Orman is, in the words of a recent Weekly Standard story, a “vacuous cipher.” Watching Orman’s performance in a recent debate with Roberts before a business group in this […]

I have a single purpose in writing this open letter: To ask your consideration in supporting Patty Hymanson as Maine District 4 House representative. My personal support of Patty Hymanson comes after many years of working with her while she was a member and chair of the York School Committee. Before retiring as superintendent of […]

My recent experience dealing with John Tuttle this past year showed me just why the voters of District 33 need to make a change and elect Dave Woodsome this November. I spent months working to pass important legislation requiring health insurance plans in Maine to cover a simple bone marrow donor suitability test. It was […]

I grew up in Massachusetts in an Irish Catholic family where politics was talked about openly at the kitchen tables, at the dining room tables and in the living rooms and the parlors of family and friends. Roosevelt and Kennedy were the heroes of the day. After Kennedy died, there were no more heroes that […]

Local politics and politicians have given a lot of us in Old Orchard Beach the blues. I’m especially referring to some of them who rode in on white horses to save the town, only to stick residents with the bill for the horses in the form of sharp hikes in the property taxes. There’s one […]

My family started our business, Volk Packaging Corporation, in 1967. We were the first company in the Biddeford Industrial Park, and have been proud Biddeford taxpayers for almost 50 years. We are hoping to stay on Morin Street for another 50 years. To do that, however, we need a strong Maine economy. We need a […]

The mill developers, Doug Sanford and Chris Betjemann, want the city to build them a parking garage. Mayor Alan Casavant, City Manager John Bubier and Economic Development Director Daniel Stevenson, who are lobbying for the interests of the developers, also want taxpayers to foot the bill for a parking garage. The mill developers and city […]

One can’t remember when the MacDonald family of Old Orchard Beach wasn’t contributing to their neighbors. Like her grandfather, who was an elected official of Old Orchard Beach, Sharri MacDonald is providing a variety of services for the people of this town. She works tirelessly and admirably for us who are fortunate to live in […]

I respectfully urge residents in State House District 15 to support Carol Patterson for state representative in the upcoming election. Carol is not a career-bound, tax-and-spend politician. She has real-life experiences, actually held a real job for many years and can relate to the problems of working people in her district. Guy Thivierge, Saco