Governor Janet Mills’s signature on LD 585 to legalize sports betting in Maine is a monumental event. Exclusive licensing for online betting to Maine’s tribes is a significant financial gift. Having accomplished that goal, the tribes are free to concentrate on LD 1626. The 130th legislature entered the last day of the second regular session […]
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From Augusta – A budget for working families and their children
On Tuesday, April 19, the Maine Legislature passed the supplemental budget, which features our plans for how to invest the state’s $1.2 billion surplus in Maine’s people. Then, on Wednesday, April 20, Gov. Janet Mills signed the budget into law. I’d like to discuss some of the items that will address our current challenges, offer […]
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Guest Column – In praise of ungainly things
At some point the world got way too slick. iPhones, flat-screen TVs, Teslas, Scandinavian furniture, glass skyscrapers, techno music. Everything is smooth, streamlined, silken to the touch and soothing to the senses. Today’s manufactured objects tend to be seamless and symmetrical, polished to a tastefully burnished sheen. And in the process, rendered soulless. Left behind […]
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From Augusta – Addressing Maine’s housing crisis
As your representative for House District 9, I believe a big part of my job in Augusta is helping hard-working people who are being turned away from, or squeezed out of, our communities due to the statewide housing crisis. They are people who work in town offices, public safety, health care, small businesses, schools, the […]
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A Voice from the Past – Charles Barry
The Brick Store Museum holds over 30,000 pieces of archival material written by historic Kennebunkers. A Voice from the Past shares a document from the museum’s collection. Today’s entry is from Charles Dummer Barry, born in Kennebunk in 1850. Here, he writes his thoughts about money in his journal from West Newton, Massachusetts, at age […]
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Guest Column – The Hotel
In Kennebunkport, The Hotel sat on a high bluff overlooking its own heated, outdoor saltwater swimming pool, and a small, rocky, private beach near the river’s mouth. Farther on, along the coast, beyond Gooch’s Beach, Mother’s Beach and Lord’s Point, on a good day you could make out the hazy top of Mount Agamenticus. The […]
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From Augusta – Supporting Maine families by increasing access to child care
As many of you already know, last March my daughter gave birth to my first grandchild, Evelyn Grace. This has been a really exciting time for our family. But anyone who has raised a child knows it comes with its challenges. Making sure your child (and you) get enough sleep, maintain nutritious diets and so […]
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A Voice from the Past – Capt. James Fairfield
The Brick Store Museum holds over 30,000 pieces of archival material written by historic Kennebunkers. The column shares a voice from the past from the museum’s collection. This week’s letter was written by 31-year-old James Fairfield, captain of the ship MacDonough, to his wife, Lois Walker, after his ship was captured by the British during […]
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Guest Column – The Bromley Thing
Since early morning we had been picking and navigating our way along the upslope of the Bromley Pass. Our goal was to reach the summit by nightfall and sleep there in the shelter of the ranger station. By midday, and halfway there, we could just begin to make out the tiny speck that was our […]
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Guest Column – From Russia, with shove
Russian President Vladimir Putin has committed the full force of his country’s military to subdue and possibly destroy a neighboring democracy in a murdering, vainglorious attempt to recreate a 21st century Soviet Union. Or speculate some historians, to revive a new Russian empire based on an ethno-nationalist fantasy that originated in Tsarist Russia hundreds of […]