My buddies Ayres and Klinger and I walked its crowded corridors for hours on Friday nights, hoping to meet girls. That’s what we did at South Hills Village Mall in the late 1970s, when we were teens and the American Mall was in its heyday. Built in the mid-1960s, and the very first indoor mall […]

Unless you live in a cave, you’ve seen the ad campaign that CMP unleashed about how their corridor was going to save the planet from climate change.  What you may not have noticed is that those ads have stopped in favor of a new approach as the international corporation likely saw that their “green” ad […]

In Maine, there are signs the pandemic is waning. As the highly contagious Delta variant runs its course, and mandates help increase the vaccinated population, we may – finally – be turning a corner. Predictions of staffing shortages in hospitals, widespread after Gov. Janet Mills imposed an Oct. 1 mandate, though with enforcement delayed to […]

Freedom ends when endangerment of others begins When I first saw the anti-mask protesters grouped together at the entrance to Mt. Ararat High School Sept. 29, I mistook them for the “…huddled masses yearning to breathe free…”. I quickly scanned the area searching for the Statue of Liberty, but in vain. Their intended message was […]

Whatever problems the real Joe Biden faces with polls and policies, they pale in comparison to what fake Joe Biden characters are suffering on “Saturday Night Live.” When the NBC series returned for its 47th season, a new cast member named James Austin Johnson took a crack at portraying Biden. His performance, to be diplomatic, […]