A few years ago, I was getting a haircut from the local barber. I found myself talking about the years I lived in Alaska. I told him one of my many stories, and he found it “wicked cool” and suggested I share some of my stories with my readers in my weekly column. Many people […]

During Harry Reid’s tenure as majority leader, there has been no dirtier word in the Senate than “filibuster.” On perhaps a million occasions, Reid and his Democratic colleagues have accused Republicans of using the 60-vote requirement to obstruct the Senate and prevent lawmakers from doing the country’s business. In November 2013, in a virtual frenzy […]

My neighbor who lives alone and has no family locally had gone to see the mayor a year and a half ago now about how to get help because she had no family here. Her name is Lois, and she was the actual brainchild for the Buddy System. She just wanted someone to check in […]

We received our property tax bill this week and received quite a surprise. Even though our assessment had gone down, our taxes went up by $303 for the year. I am sure that it was the same throughout the city. We will probably see even more “for sale” signs in the near future. Taxpayers need […]

Saco citizens should mark their calendars for a 7 p.m. Saco Citizens for Sensible Taxes meeting on Sept. 11 at Saco City Hall. This will be our first meeting after the summer break. We are recruiting new members and would also like to introduce our present members. This meeting will include discussion of the lack […]

A petition paper to gather signatures of those opposed to the cellphone tower antenna that city councilors and the mayor want to install on Hill Street (.3 miles from the junior high school, .4 from the Biddeford Primary, and .6 miles from John Kennedy School) was circulated this summer, but due to multiple factors, the […]

This column is the first in a series about the continued prevalence of Jim Crow in this land. In the op-ed “Black Town, White Power” by Jeff Smith (The New York Times, Aug. 18), we learn that, since 2010, the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson is 67 percent black and 29 percent white. But “majority-black […]

We all thought we were done with racism scandals in the National Basketball Association this summer. We all thought dealing with the never-ending, on-again-off-again forced sale of the Los Angeles Clippers from Donald Sterling was enough to last five summers. But here we are, three weeks shy of the end of summer, and less than […]