Elected officials are entrusted with conducting the business of their constituents and acting in the best interests of those they represent. To that end, the general public has a right to know what official actions their board and committee members are taking, which is why those entities operate under specific rules of order, take minutes, […]

Massabesic Project Graduation would like to thank the people of Poland Spring for donating water to our Project Graduation event held at St. Joseph’s College on June 12. Without the support of businesses like Poland Spring, our event would not be the success that it is. Our event is totally funded by donations and parent […]

I would like to publicly thank a good Samaritan who saved my daughter Gabrielle’s life on July 3 at 7:45 a.m. on Ross Road in Kennebunk. She was heading to work at a local daycare when she started to choke in her car. Thank God she was smart enough to get out of her car […]

Since 1926, millions of boys from across the country have passed through the rite of summer that is American Legion baseball. After the high school season ends, players don uniforms to represent hometown American Legion Posts and team sponsors, such as Biddeford-Saco Savings and Fayette Staples, representing Biddeford and Saco, respectively. American Legion baseball ”“ […]

As rarely as I celebrate decisions of the Roberts Supreme Court, I certainly agree with its unanimous ruling last week that protects the privacy rights of cellphone users from government searches without due process. I also agree with last week’s unanimous decision that ends the no-free-speech buffer zones on public streets alongside abortion clinics, which […]

The purveyors of anti-Barack Obama vitriol know their audience well. Eager for further proof of what they think they already know, which in this case is that America’s current chief executive fouls things up as regularly as the sun rises in the east, their followers reliably accept all scuttlebutt about the president without even considering […]

Howard Baker wrote his own epitaph. The Tennessee Republican served in the Senate for 18 years ”“ eight of them as his party’s leader ”“ before retiring in 1984. When he died recently at 88, we looked up a speech Baker gave in 1998, in which he described his leadership style. “Very often,” he said, […]

The New York Times on the Supreme Court siding with Hobby Lobby: The Supreme Court’s deeply dismaying decision on Monday in the Hobby Lobby case swept aside accepted principles of corporate law and religious liberty to grant owners of closely held, for-profit companies an unprecedented right to impose their religious views on employees. It was […]