Brunswick needs a moratorium I appreciate that reporter John Terhune covered our Town Council’s public hearing last Tuesday on the proposed development moratorium (“‘Developers will flee’: Brunswick Council holds off on proposed development moratorium,” June 22). However, he over-emphasized the alarmist tone of the developers and wrote little about the large number of residents present who […]

All development that involves cutting trees and paving land has an impact on our climate. We are seeing the immediate destruction of habitat on the former Navy base, where many large swaths of older trees have been/are being destroyed to create office buildings and new housing. As this continues, we in Brunswick are doing our […]

Conventional wisdom wrongly blames Biden for inflation

Do you remember “The Summer of 1942,” the nostalgic movie about a teenage boy’s huge crush on an “older” (in her 20s) woman, played by Jennifer O’ Neal, a stunning beauty who could fuel the fantasies of any male with a pulse? The year 1942 has significance for Tina and me, as we were both […]

The U.S. Congress appears close to passing a bipartisan gun safety bill that would represent the first federal gun safety legislation to be passed in a generation. The proposed law is limited in scope, but among the provisions is a proposal to close the so-called “boyfriend loophole” which allows some people with a record of […]

If you want to know what the slide into fascism looks like, go back and review Tuesday’s session of the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. It was a tragic parade of public servants relaying the vile acts of harassment they were subjected to as they did the […]

Sitting in my home office I am greeted by a cool breeze coming through my open window and the sweet sounds of summer outside. It’s late June, which used to be peak bike-hiking season for kids — but now it’s mostly adults who go on long rides on their expensive high-tech bikes. The bike has […]