thumb”¢nail (thum’nail’)         …2. anything quite small or brief,         as a small drawing or short essay Thumbs up to the French teachers and others who recently helped coordinate an exchange program for Biddeford-Saco students, giving them the opportunity to interact with students from Nantes, France. It’s a win-win for students on both […]

Last year, I had trouble receiving some very important mail. At first, my thought was the post office was not delivering the mail correctly, but upon further investigation that was far from being true. Does anybody know of any two cities having the same ZIP code? Each city and town are supposed to have their […]

As the Senate chairwoman of the Legislature’s Workforce Committee, I have had the opportunity to hear from many entrepreneurs who work every day to drive Maine’s economy forward. I have also been privileged to hear from researchers conducting groundbreaking studies across the state. The message has been loud and clear: Investment in our innovators will […]

Lots of politically incorrect translation is needed when reading Mr. Pizzigati’s advocation of raising the minimum wage to fight economic inequality. Most folks understand that people are not equal and never will be equal. Some are intelligent and some are not. Some are hard workers and some are not. Some have very demanding jobs and […]

This letter is in response to your March 4 front page article regarding Wells being asked to drop the “Warriors” nickname. At Saint Anselm College, for our humanities course, we studied “Portraits of Human Greatness.” One unit we studied as freshmen was the warrior unit. We studied warriors such as the Greek warriors of Homer’s […]

A 160-foot-high cell tower erection is being considered in Springvale. Within this area are wetlands defined as a rare animal habitat on an attachment to Sanford’s Comprehensive Plan. One of the rare animals could be Blanding’s turtle, which is on the Maine Endangered Species List. Some residents have alleged that Mariner Towers is being cagey […]

Expanding Medicaid is the hot topic in Augusta ”“ and around the nation ”“ these days, since the federal government offered up 100 percent of the costs for three years in conjunction with the Affordable Care Act. Now, lawmakers in Maine are fighting over whether the costs will truly be covered, and making almost daily […]

Democrats and Republicans have again shown their unusual capacity to get nothing done in Washington. Both parties recognize the federal tax code is a mess, riddled with so many deals for a wide variety of special interests that it is no longer fair in the way it treats most Americans. The last time there was […]