South Portland Detective Sgt. Steve Webster has stared into the abyss of ‘welfare fraud’ in Maine and, trust him, it’s unbelievable.

Monica Castellanos, partner in a consulting and communications firm, recently filed to run as a Democrat for House District 86, which covers part of Augusta.

There is a new buzzword in basketball: “tanking,” defined as the art of losing, or being bad now to be better in the future. Yes, tanking means trying to lose. Not exactly an approach associated with professional sports, or sport of any kind, but a phenomenon that’s become especially prevalent in the National Basketball Association […]

In 1975, Frank Church, a Democratic senator from Idaho, told the American people that a government intelligence agency most of them had never heard of ”“ the National Security Agency ”“ “had the capability to secretly monitor everything: telephone conversations, telegrams, it doesn’t matter. There would be no place to hide.” Like many Americans, regardless […]

Forget April Fools’ Day! Today, when abbreviated in standard American style, is 4-1-14. It’s a numerical palindrome, and that’s significant. A palindrome, for the uninitiated, is a series of numbers and/or letters which read the same backward to forward as they do forward to backward. How many palindromic dates are there in a given year? […]

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, on flood insurance increases: You really need to know only two things about the federal flood-insurance program to evaluate its wisdom. First, many owners say they couldn’t afford to have homes so close to the shore without the substantial subsidy. […]

thumb”¢nail (thum’nail’)         …2. anything quite small or brief,         as a small drawing or short essay Thumbs up to the twin cities’ continuing efforts to get people downtown and eating and shopping locally with the first-ever Biddeford+Saco Restaurant Week, which ran from March 24-30. Although the effort had some kinks, it was […]

The Army has disgraced us all with the Sinclair sentence.” That’s what our friend, a retired general, wrote about the case of Brig. Gen. Jeffrey A. Sinclair, who was accused of serious sexual misconduct with three women under his command. Only the third Army general to face court martial in 60 years, Sinclair received a […]