Republican pollster Frank Luntz met last weekend with 17 vaccine-resisting Trump voters to better understand why they won’t take the simple step of protecting themselves and their fellow citizens. Their answers were predictably ignorant. One guy said, “I mean, we’re just going to be shot up and shot up and shot up. We can’t live […]

The cost of construction materials has gone through the roof – if you can still afford a roof, which isn’t very affordable right now. All I wanted to do was build a modest roof over my modest deck at my modest house. But a year of government pandemic policies and the law of unintended consequences […]

“That’s all she wrote.” Explaining this familiar American sentence, a British authority wrote that it means, “it’s all over; there’s no more to be said.” That’s what we used to think about history. You found out what happened and wrote a big book about it. While that belief was never true, it is now strongly […]

During his Prairie Home Companion show, Garrison Keilor would talk about Powdermilk Biscuits made by Norwegian bachelor farmers. As he noted, these biscuits are made of, “the whole wheat that gives shy persons the strength to get up and do what needs to be done.” Well, members of the Midcoast Maine community can take a […]

I have watched with concern the plans to remove the historic Frank J. Wood Bridge over the Androscoggin between Brunswick and Topsham. Although not currently an engineer, I have degrees in Civil and Structural Engineering from the University of Maine and MIT and was in the Army Corps of Engineers. I am in a group […]