As board members of the Heart of Biddeford, an organization charged with the revitalization of Biddeford’s downtown, we wish to add to the community conversation about downtown parking and parking meters. We support the efforts of the City’s Parking Education Committee to draw attention to the issues, and we are in support of the results […]

To begin with the remoteness of post-racial America, here are “14 Disturbing Stats About Racial Inequality in American Public Schools” from The Nation: “For the first time in history, the Education Department … examined school discipline at the pre-K level,” discovering that during the 2011-12 school year: “Black students accounted for 18 percent of the […]

This November, we face an important choice about who will lead our state as governor. In the five years since the end of the recession, Maine has recovered only 58 percent of jobs lost, while the nation has recovered 108 percent and New England has recovered 128 percent. Jobs and the economy are a clear […]

For six weeks this summer, I traveled the United States to ride my bicycle on the best trails and mountains our country has to offer. I’m an avid rider and love all things bike. Having lived in Maine my whole life, I learned how to ride on the same trails many of you all know. […]

I have lived in Maine since 1985, and prior to that I was born and grew up in Massachusetts. Let me tell you, that it was a cultural shock coming to Maine as I was told by many Mainers that I was too formal and polite. I was told that Mainers were laid back and […]

With scandal after scandal rocking the National Football League and hogging all of the national sporting headlines over the past week, it’s easy to forget that there is still a Major League Baseball season ongoing as we start to settle into fall. It’s a sad irony that since MLB’s season and postseason is forced to […]

When Bill Clinton and George W. Bush announced a project jointly sponsored by their presidential libraries, news coverage focused on the style, not the substance, of the event. The Wall Street Journal said the two ex-presidents “could have been mistaken for a comedy routine.” The Associated Press reported that they “shared laughs and a buddy-like […]

After I attended a tea party rally in Augusta of 2010, I got more involved by way of social media, and joined political groups and posted rants, even sharing non-factual memes. Finally, after a couple of years of this, with what felt like no change around me, I decided that I had to get more […]