Portland taxpayers still are waiting for a full accounting of public funds spent on the cold storage warehouse that opened on West Commercial Street in February. And, now we learn that many local companies have not been paid for their work on the facility (“Maine’s new cold storage facility is at the center of a […]

I’ve had it with our elected officials wringing their hands, whining and repeating “this is unprecedented” every time our president disregards our laws and brushes aside our Constitution. To this I say, “Well, then, do something!” I want our congressmen to climb down off their pile of money and fight for our beloved country. So […]

I have watched the growing panic over the May 7 Real ID deadline. When I moved to Maine two years ago and applied for my Maine driver’s license, I asked for the Real ID version. The otherwise super helpful person on the other side of the window at my local Department of Motor Vehicles office […]

Otherwise known as … the news.

Stunned! That’s what I was when I opened the May 4 Opinion section of the Sunday paper and discovered that the political cartoons of the week had been replaced by an expanded letters section. Those missing cartoons are the best part of the paper to me, a place I can rely on to put some […]

It aims to ‘protect’ us from voter fraud, an issue that doesn’t exist.

Just how low can they go? An article appeared in the April 27 edition of the Sun Journal exposing the lost funding from terminated grants by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“Feds freeze community paramedicine funding across Maine”). It’s becoming more difficult to find a primary doctor, hospitals are closing, and this […]