The Town of Kennebunk has instituted a change to its parking rules in the downtown area, to help keep parking spaces available to customers visiting the businesses. Last week, officials announced the change would be going into effect. Now, parking along a section of High Street will have a two-hour limit between the hours of […]

Recently Hillary Clinton gave what appeared at first to be a rambling and unfocused answer when asked to name the proudest achievement of her four years as Secretary of State. The short version is, she doesn’t have one. But Clinton’s words make a lot more sense when seen not as a non-answer to a specific […]

I’ve read a couple of articles now about “level funding” proposal for all public service agencies in Sanford, which apparently means that YCCAC would not receive the additional, extremely reasonable increase request of $18,380 over last year ”“ not a huge amount of money when one considers what’s at stake. Without it, the current schedule […]

Although the Final Four has been done and dusted for more than a week, there is one lingering stick that should remain the collective craw of anyone who loves watching college basketball, or cares the slightest bit about its health.  It has nothing to do with the games themselves, the announcers, coaches, players, the one-and-done-rule […]

After my 84-year-old father lost nearly $70,000 to a well-organized scam, I began to research how that could possibly happen. The name of one man surfaced: a man who not only understood the magnitude of a Jamaican scam organization, but who cared enough to do something about it.  That man is York County Sheriff’s Office […]

While I have been in the Senate, we have done a great deal of work to protect the integrity of our anti-poverty programs by investigating and preventing fraud and misuse. We have bolstered anti-fraud investigations and prosecutions with staff and funding, voted to support a bill to create a comprehensive, transparent reporting system to stop […]

The latest example of men behaving badly is Michael Hayden, the former CIA director. He said on Fox that Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the chair of the Intelligence Committee, was motivated by a “deep emotional feeling” when she endorsed a still-secret report that sharply criticizes the agency’s interrogation tactics in the aftermath of 9/11. We all […]