In these inflationary times it’s not easy to laugh as you watch the value of your hard-earned savings being destroyed. But I chuckled out loud when I read some of the tips offered by Bloomberg News to beat inflation, which is at its highest point in more than 40 years. Since Americans have enjoyed low […]

Three referendum questions that sponsors hoped to get on the November ballot will instead appear, most likely, in 2023, since signature-gathering efforts fell short. Overall, the delay may provide needed breathing room. Maine has been in full policy-by-referendum mode since 2016, when no fewer than five major questions appeared, and things haven’t gotten a lot […]

Joe Biden didn’t disappoint me. At his press conference this week he was the same old strange guy with the same old predictable excuses for one of the most hapless rookie presidential years in history. The liberal media reporters didn’t disappoint me. I knew they’d ask a bunch of friendly questions about issues most of […]

About halfway through his marathon news conference last week, President Joe Biden finally asked the only question in Washington that’s worth asking. With congressional Republicans standing in the way of the Democrats’ every initiative, including voting rights (which should be as bipartisan as it gets), what do they actually support? “What are Republicans for? What […]

Bravo! I applaud the decision of the Bath City Council to approve the mask mandate. I know that this was difficult. It is hard, but important. It is one of the moves that will make a difference and we need to do all that we can so that at some point we can be done […]

I’ve got to hand it to the GOP and a couple of centrist Democrats – they certainly know how to misinterpret and misrepresent the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an effort to promote their retrograde agendas. It never fails, almost like clockwork, some politician will echo (arrogantly and without shame) a select […]

“How cute. What’s his name?” I get that several times a day while walking our female Shih Tzu, Abigail. So it is in dog walking protocol: Everyone wants to know Abbie’s name, but no one ever asks mine. Though fewer people are sheltered at home these days, dog walking doesn’t seem to be waning in […]