I would like take this opportunity to publicly thank Poland Spring for donating bottled water for the Maine Black Flies travel baseball team. The importance of healthy, active young athletes is essential to creating good habits. Being part of an organized team and learning, growing and reaching goals together among your peers is the best […]

Silky dresses and sharp suits are in order this time of year, as prom season gets under way for area high school juniors and seniors. It’s a time to make great memories with school friends and celebrate the end of another school year. Unfortunately, it’s also a time of year when parents worry that their […]

The new comedy show “Last Week Tonight” with John Oliver included a well-deserved riff on the food industry in its first episode. Oliver, who you might know from his work on Comedy Central’s fake news program, “The Daily Show,” went after two well-deserved targets: Pom Wonderful pomegranate juice and Coca-Cola. He refers to a court […]

Maine’s future in the offshore wind industry took another major hit last week when the federal government announced the University of Maine’s proposal to build an offshore wind pilot project would not receive a $47 million grant to move it forward. The state and UMaine officials were banking on the federal grant, and now must […]

I am writing this letter in support of the candidacy of William “Bill” King Jr. for York County sheriff. King’s professional career has well prepared him for taking a leadership role in county law enforcement. He began his career working for the Portland Police Department, moved on to become assistant director of the Maine DEA, […]

The prominent educator Peter Relic was once asked by a reporter about participation in the U.S. News and World Report ranking program for high schools. He demurred and asked, “Do you have children?” The reporter said that he had three. Relic followed with, “Which of your children is the best?” Ranking schools ”“ or assigning […]

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Savannah (Ga.) Morning News on Benghazi email as a smoking gun: The Obama administration ”“ and likely 2016 presidential contender Hillary Clinton ”“ keep wishing the Benghazi mess will vanish. Or, failing that, they hope to spin it as a fantasy of right-wing […]

My daughter was diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes at the age of 10. For the last seven years, she has had to monitor her blood sugar, inject insulin, and measure everything she eats and drinks while watching her activity level. This is not easy for a teenage girl in the face of possible seizures or […]

Many Democrats have a hard time understanding why Republicans want to keep investigating the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya. Some see the GOP trying to score partisan points for this November’s midterms. Others see a plot to undermine Hillary Clinton’s 2016 prospects. Still others see Republican psychosis, the Benghazi variant of Obama […]