Do you care about having access to local and sustainably produced food or protecting your drinking water? Are you concerned about corporate influence distorting our elections? If you answered yes to either of these questions, you should be worried about legislation Sen. Max Baucus and Rep. Dave Camp recently introduced that would grant the Obama […]

For too long, the Biddeford Municipal Airport has been left to deteriorate, as the city first argued about its future and then simply decided to ignore it. Improvements such as tree trimming and repaving the runway are needed to keep the facility up to Federal Aviation Administration safety standards, but no action can be taken […]

Cokie and Stephen Roberts, in their column Monday, Jan. 27, recommend free trade. Doesn’t that sound nice? Well, it’s not. It is bad. Very bad. One may note the tidal wave of industry and manufacturing that fled overseas after the passage of the North American Free Trade Agreement. There is such a thing as cause […]

A century ago, there were no hospitals in Sanford or Springvale. An effort was made on the eve of World War I by the Sanford Board of Trade to fund a hospital, but the funds raised were not sufficient to start construction. Dr. H. Danforth Ross arrived in Sanford shortly thereafter. With the help of […]

Illegal drug use is on the rise in Maine ”“ and other New England states ”“ and drug-related deaths are increasing as a result. Maine Attorney General Janet Mills and the state’s Chief Medical Examiner Margaret Greenwald said recently that the increased incidents of drug use and drug trafficking represent a crisis. In a joint […]

I agree with the recent editorial about the tax benefit for seniors 100 percent. Seniors have had plenty of time to plan, and downsizing should be in their plans. I am a senior and have been downsizing. Fuel assistance is the same problem. People buy houses bigger than they can afford to heat. Channel 6 […]

I recently came across more proof that lawmakers blocking progress are weakening the institution of Congress: Mayors from across the nation met in Washington, D.C., for three days last week to discuss a host of issues and possible solutions against a backdrop of congressional inaction. This came as President Obama stated his plans to use […]

President Obama couldn’t have been more emphatic. Critics of the Affordable Care Act were predicting it would encourage employers to stop offering health insurance to their workers, forcing them to find new, and possibly more costly, coverage on the Obamacare exchanges. The president had long scoffed at such predictions, and at a White House news […]