When I read the story about Saco’s problem with newspaper litter, I had to check my calendar. I wrote a letter to the Courier about the very same topic roughly 20 years ago, so to say it’s a perennial problem is an understatement. The offending newspapers are quick to hide behind their First Amendment rights, […]

It’s a shame that in the middle of one of the most exciting weeks of basketball in recent memory, the NBA was sidetracked by perhaps one of the most embarrassing incidents in the league’s long history: In a recording of an alleged exchange between Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his girlfriend, he told […]

Virtually no one acknowledges those who perform thankless tasks flawlessly. But should something go awry, or be perceived as having gone awry, those rightly or wrongly deemed accountable are invariably inundated with torrents of shrill abuse, most of it coming from sources utterly unqualified to criticize, let alone handle any similar responsibilities themselves.  Recent circumstances […]

During the continuously explosive debates about education reform and teacher evaluation, no mention has been made by the media in all its forms of a persistently effective national teaching force in enabling college students to know how to become self-governing Americans for the rest of their lives. Nor have I previously identified the Foundation for […]

5 things to know about Google’s self-driving cars project.

Washington politicos aren’t quite right when they say that federal budget proposals are “dead on arrival.” Even if they don’t become law, budgets stand as living, breathing testimonies of the values and priorities of the people who write them. And it may surprise you that the budget proposal that’s most likely to line up with […]

The New York Times ran this dispatch from the Ukrainian city of Donetsk: “Worshippers at the Bet Menakhem-Mendl synagogue … confronted a horrifying scene as they left a Passover service this week: masked men on a sidewalk handing out leaflets demanding that Jews register and pay a fine or leave the area, witnesses said.” Pinchas […]