“Time is going by so much faster than I, and I’m starting to regret not spending all of it with you. Now I’m wondering why I’ve kept this bottled inside. So I’m starting to regret not telling of it to you.” — Nickelback I suppose I ought to introduce myself. Some of you may remember […]

The release of NASA’s budget last week seemed to confirm what has long been clear to everyone. The ambition to return to the moon via the Constellation program is  not a realistic goal. The administration’s proposal reflects a change of course based on the recommendations of a report by a blue ribbon panel. The Augustine […]

There have been a few sharp words in Old Orchard Beach recently over management of The Ballpark, but we’re inclined to accept a recent remark downplaying the controversy. “I see this as a real positive problem,” Town Manager Jack Turcotte commented recently. His point was that efforts to rehabilitate the facility have reached a key […]

Pursuing a legal strategy that has largely lost touch with reality, a music industry trade group continues to hound a woman for sharing songs on the Internet. The record labels have abandoned their strategy of launching high-profile lawsuits against college students and grandmothers for file-sharing, but the Recording Industry of America continues to doggedly pursue […]

Low-income Mainers struggling with high heating bills are likely find less aid available this year ”“ and perhaps next ”“  because more emergency aid is going to other states. Maine’s senators and representatives, among others, have objected to a shift that resulted in a federal allocation to Maine of only $4.8 million in emergency funding […]

Thumbs up to the dozens of dentists and other volunteers who are giving of their time and talent to make the free dental clinic happen in Biddeford. Dental care is an essential component of good health and this service is especially needed in hard times. Thumbs up to the Goodwins Mills Fire Department for getting […]

My actual training to perform peritoneal dialysis in my apartment will start next month, according to my nurse/instructor, Connie, although I had hoped it would have been this month. But it takes at least six weeks for the insertion of the catheter, which was surgically inserted in my stomach on Jan. 8. All seemed to […]

It’s said that everyone wants a wife. That’s not a sexist remark so much as it is a fact.  The traditional wife boasts a domestic resume that is without peer. She’s a whiz at multi-tasking, a superb team player, and manager of the highest order. With credentials like these, it’s perfectly clear why everyone ”“ […]

The rising environmental and economic costs of fossil fuels are making nuclear power seem almost respectable, but its resurgence raises difficult questions, including several that are pertinent in Maine The administration has pleased energy hawks by including incentives for producing nuclear energy in the new federal budget. It has proposed offering billions in loan guarantees […]

Sen. Susan Collins delivered the Republican weekly address last week, taking an unduly harsh view of the Obama administration’s strategy against terrorism. As ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, Collins has a key role in keeping watch on the threats facing the nation. But Saturday’s argument was not an analysis of national security […]