Thumbs up to Biddeford High School Principal Britton Wolfe for providing a forum for students to share their thoughts on “grinding,” a provocative form of dancing that includes simulation of sexual movements. Grinding is the generally accepted form of dancing to rap music, which is popular in youth dance halls nowadays, but it has the […]

When a family faces economic hardship, not only do they sit at the kitchen table and figure out how to cut their spending, they also try to find ways to come up with more money. It the roof leaks or the foundation cracks, they know it makes more sense to fix them than to put […]

As election day unfolds on Nov. 2, partisans on all sides can take steps to ensure that there is something they can feel good about, win or lose. The Biddeford-Saco Rotary Club hopes is calling for a landslide of food for local food pantries. Collections will take place at the polls in Biddeford, Saco and […]

This year’s election puts many consequential issues before the voters, and editorials and letters have argued at length over the virtues of candidates. In the final days before voting, we’d like to remind voters of our support for two issues that have not attracted much attention: The two proposed bond issues on the state ballot. […]

A series of zoning amendments in Arundel have been proposed with the goal of helping a specific business. They were placed before the voters through the efforts of that business. Five of the seven proposals are opposed by the Planning Board. Bentley’s Saloon is a highly regarded business, and the proposals appear to be widely […]

A lot of what we are hearing and seeing on many political ads is simply unacceptable mudslinging. We all are exposed to too many negative statements in ads, debates and written political releases. What makes one political message feel hard-hitting, but truthful, while another seems negative? The negative one has a message that is false […]

A proposal to bring slot machine gambling and harness racing to Biddeford has divided the city, and it has divided the Journal Tribune’s editorial board. We can’t endorse the plan’s substantial expansion of gambling in Maine, especially since it is remarkably light on requirements or obligations for the developer. Yet we are reluctant to urge […]

These woods are so alive right now with color that the words to adequately describe it escape me. So vibrant, so insistent, and not to be overlooked or outdone, autumn never disappoints. There is every imaginable shade of yellow, crimson, and brown, and I realize that I am grateful to the pines and hemlocks for […]

Nearly three decades ago I was in the midst of what turned out to be a 20-year extended adolescence. I spent mornings substitute-teaching at my old high school, then coached various athletic teams there each afternoon. The kids loved me, and why not? I knew many of their older siblings, was an accomplished basketball player, […]

Thumbs down to the tedious process that the Town of Wells is encountering in getting its harbor dredge. The town’s efforts have been years in the making and the Maine Department of Environmental Protection and U.S. Fish and Wildlife want property owners to sign off on wildlife habitat management agreements before the town knows the […]