A few days ago, my wife and I joined some friends for a gathering during a few rare hours when we weren’t busy hauling a teenager to some kind of expensive activity or hosting an entire herd of them at our home to ransack our pantry and abuse the plumbing. The highlight of the get-together […]

The fascist threat at the top, so well documented by the Jan. 6 Committee, is rightfully seizing our attention. But it’s also happening from the bottom up. Case in point: Nevada nutcase Jim Marchant. In Nevada’s Republican primary, he became the cult’s candidate to be secretary of state – the election overseer in that narrowly […]

The good news is that homelessness is a solvable problem. The bad news is that more people are experiencing homelessness. Covid 19 and its residual impact worsened the housing crisis experienced by many Mainers. The Point In Time (PIT) Survey published annually by Maine Housing looks at the number of people experiencing homelessness on a […]

January 6 hearings reveal true nature of political split

Brunswick needs a better direction for growth The Brunswick Zoning Ordinance states that housing development should be directed to town-designated urban growth areas, and away from rural areas, and should promote the protection and preservation of important open spaces and habitats. Furthermore, we should protect the bay from pollution to maintain it as an important […]

“As we speak, the ocean a few miles to our east is readying itself to be filled with stars. “When I came to Bowdoin, one of the first things I did was to pile into a big white van with strangers and go winding off into the thick Maine dark for the vague promise of […]

My dad isn’t doing so well. His wife of 65 years and six kids could be doing better, too. He’ll be 89 in July and his body is showing its age. His legs don’t work so well due to stenosis of the spine, plus he’s been in and out of skilled-nursing centers and hospitals the […]