As of Friday, Feb. 7, York County Community Action Corporation suspended its role as the primary provider of non-emergency Medicaid transport for York County’s most vulnerable residents ”“ people from every town and city ranging from elders to infants, many of whom endure physical disabilities. As president of the YCCAC Board of Directors, I can […]

It may come instinctively for some to react in an emergency or try to prevent a crime from taking place, but there are some situations in which people need to leave it to police to catch the perpetrator. Late last month, a robber who held up a convenience store in Sanford actually fired gunshots at […]

Excerpts from recent editorials in newspapers in the United States and abroad: The Chicago Tribune on how Obama should capitalize on two takeaways from his address: State of the Union addresses are about big ambitions, and Tuesday night’s didn’t disappoint. Barack Obama’s many priorities ”“ job creation, middle-class earnings, infrastructure spending and all the others […]

At the start of the recent Syria negotiations, Secretary of State John Kerry said the governing Assad regime must go. U.S. House Republicans voted more than 40 times to repeal the Affordable Care Act. Maine Gov. Paul LePage refused to meet Democratic leaders. What these moves show is a distressing lack of ability to negotiate. […]

Let’s cut to the chase: If Big Brother wants you, he’s got you, telephone metadata notwithstanding. This disconcerting fact of modern life has been true more or less since the invention of the camera, the microphone and the tape recorder. See the excellent German film “The Lives of Others” for details. The Stasi managed to […]

If I had a time machine, I’d travel back to the heyday of the Roman Coliseum so I could watch toga-wearing schmucks use broadswords to fend off armor-plated lions. Yup. Picture the scene: I’m wearing a homemade robe fashioned out of a faded Care Bears beach blanket I used when I was 4. There’s a […]

Preserving history is a noble goal, providing future generations with a connection to the past and an understanding of how we reached this point in time. It’s unfortunate that progress often seems to march over history with little respect, in the name of embracing the future, with the names of those who built the communities, […]

To be entrusted with the care of other people’s children is a great responsibility, and one that most caregivers take very seriously. Parents who must work and do not have the option of having a family member watch their child put a great deal of effort into finding the right place for their child to […]