A romantic comedy in which a bootstraps middle-class woman finds herself in love with a billionaire family. Entertaining, humorous, well produced, and creative, with one thing in particular that stands out – almost the entire starring cast are of Asian, primarily East Asian, descent. The entertainment media has been abuzz as the Warner Brothers-distributed film […]

Our nation is experiencing an opioid crisis. Currently more than 2.5 million Americans are addicted to either opioid pain relievers or heroin. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, opioid-related deaths have more than quadrupled since 1999. All drug overdose deaths, many caused by opioids, increased by 17 percent from 2015 to 2016 […]

Doc didn’t expect any patients before 10 o’clock this morning, so he was up and coffee’d and gone by 6:30. Lewis Creek. The Lunker’s hole on Lewis Creek. The Lunker is a huge rainbow trout that everyone knows about and no one has caught. So far he has resisted flies, worms, salmon eggs, spinners, and […]

Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh says that regulators stray from congressional intent, and courts should no longer defer to their decisions. His opponents answer that strict adherence to the letter of the law would deprive the country of necessary expert interpretation. Neither of them means exactly what they say.  Kavanaugh wants to cut back on […]

Since the Bill of Rights was adopted to the U.S. Constitution in 1789, a free and unfettered press has been a symbol of the freedom we enjoy today in America. Through the years, the American press has stood as an institution against injustice, tyranny and oppression and been a champion for those without a voice […]

Increasingly, we often expect each other to be smartphone-available nearly 24/7. Or we act as if this is the case. Over time, this can lead to feelings of exhaustion and a sense of entrapment. Time to just focus on our families, our worship, our hobbies, and so on without endless “work” interruption seems to be […]

Conservative outlets are aflame with what appears to be Internet giants Facebook, Google and Twitter’s intentional move to closeout conservative viewpoints on their platforms. This is significant because the big five Internet companies collective worth is estimated to be about $4 Trillion, a total that places them above the GDP of nearly all countries.  Since […]

As Medicare and Medicaid turned 53 years old on July 30, the two historic healthcare programs covering 120 million Americans—including 470,800 recipients in Maine —are under threat from Trump-GOP tax and budget cuts.• Americans for Tax Fairness and allied organizations have released individual state reports marking the programs’ anniversaries, one of which details the impact the […]

Last month I visited Plymouth Rock. It’s a rock. My opportunity to see that famous bit of Americana came about when I was invited to spend a weekend-long celebration with a friend’s family in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Such summer holiday gatherings were truly special when I was growing up. On virtually every Memorial Day, July 4th,and […]