Chris Christie began his much-awaited remarks at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside Washington recently with an anecdote that seemed to portend some tough talk for his fellow Republicans. In his early days as governor of New Jersey, Christie recalled, a looming fiscal crisis forced him to confront the state’s powerful public employee unions, who […]

As the legendary Yogi Berra once famously quipped, “it feels like deja-vu all over again” when reading your front page story on Wells Warriors, March 4, only this time around, it makes even less sense than the last time. According to Websters dictionary, “warrior” is a noun, often attributive: a person who fights in battles […]

There is no denying that the future of education is in technology, with students as young as kindergartners now learning computer coding and using tablets. Taking courses online is a great way for students to access opportunities that may not be offered at their local school, from Mandarin to AP Physics. It’s also a boon […]

Contrary to belief, in the worst-case scenario, laboratory cat stalkers are probably not the leading cause of demise among our feline friends. I surmise that cats by nature are both the hunter and the hunted. They will never submit to a leash, and will forever roam according to their instinct. Over the past 38 years, […]

In response to your March 7 editorial, “Replacement may be only feasible option for bridge,” the current developments surrounding the fate of Saco’s Stackpole Bridge require additional facts and context. Rehabilitation of the 165-year-old bridge, Maine’s oldest stone bridge on a public roadway, is still a viable alternative under the low-interest loan program recently offered […]

Former Chief Judge of New York State Judith S. Kaye always makes necessary sense, as she did when she recently wrote this in the opinion pages of The New York Times: “As universal pre-K and the Common Core standards dominate the headlines, we cannot overlook a third subject that deserves top billing: keeping children in […]

Thirty-year-old Lee Lorch first walked onto the City College of New York campus, where he had just been hired to teach math, in 1946. The eminently qualified Manhattan native, just back from three years of World War II military service in the Pacific Theater, had earned an undergraduate degree from Cornell University and a doctorate […]

New England Patriots defensive tackle Vince Wilfork picked a bad time to suffer the first major injury of his professional football career last year, when he went down in the fourth game with an Achilles injury that ended his season. Now that Wilfork, 32, is entering the final year of his five-year contract coming off […]

The crisis in Ukraine highlights two truths about international politics: Some things have not changed since the end of the Cold War. And some things have changed a lot. What remains is the map. Ukraine still sits on Russia’s western border; the name “Ukraine” means “borderland” in Slavic, and the area was once known as […]