Now that we are in the last week of the Second Regular Session of the 128th Legislature, I would like to sincerely thank my friends and neighbors in Senate District 33 for counting on me once more to serve as their voice in Augusta. Each term is very different in the Maine Senate, and the […]

It’s no coincidence that Earth Day, the first anniversary of the signing of the climate agreement and the March for Science are all taking place on the same day, April 22. It is the people’s day. It has been the people’s day since 1970, when Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.), Rep. Pete McCloskey (R-Calif.), and lead […]

“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me.” (Psalm 23:4) My family and I drove aside the Mall in Washington, DC, creeping along Independence Avenue in search of a parking spot. We were beyond the Washington Monument, further south near our […]

Editor, On April 24 and 25, Maine Emergency Management Agency will host the 10th Annual Maine Partners in Emergency Preparedness Conference at the Augusta Civic Center.  The world has evolved a great deal during those ten years and the conference has evolved with it.  Since last year’s conference, we have seen an unprecedented number of […]

“…that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” President Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address excerpt Presidential candidates, from different […]

The most influential individual in post-World War II history had a hand in creating the United Nations, even donating the property for the building in 1946. No one had greater claim to influence since. By the mid-seventies he owned dominating interests in The New York Times, CBS, NBC, and ABC (Senate Document 93-62, Disclosure of […]

Editor, Biddeford City Councilors are on the verge of rubber stamping a $12 million dollar (400) space parking garage.  That’s $30,000 dollars per parking space. (400 X $30,000 = $12 million dollars) Lincoln Mill Project — the banner is gone and the project remains in a “Holding” pattern.  LHL Holdings was granted a 99-year lease […]

The Boston Marathon bombing was like a hot poker thrust into the smoldering embers of a recent fire—that then burst back into flame.  The race itself is as American as apple pie, one of those iconic events by which the world knows us—and we know ourselves. I had three links to the Marathon bombing—family friends […]

It almost seems like déjà vu. Like just around this time last year, Syria’s Assad government has apparently used chemical weapons on his own citizenry and civilians, leading to horrific casualties. Just like then, the footage and pictures from the region are tragic and devastating. With roughly 70 people estimated killed and hundreds more affected, roughly equivalent to […]