Regarding the recent letter in support of Susan Collins by Chip Gray (“Susan Collins saved small businesses during pandemic,” The Times Record, March 11), I am glad that the Harraseeket Inn was able to obtain its share of the PPP loans and I wish this long-standing business continued success in the years to come. That […]

How fortunate we are that Joe Biden is in the room where it happens. As evidenced Thursday night, during his Fireside Chat-style assessment of America on the cusp of recovery, he is the manifest inverse of the fraud who preceded him. Granted, Trump set the bar so low that even an ant could hurdle it. […]

Majority rule is the law of the land. The Framers put that democratic idea into Constitution. It didn’t happen. Despite their good intentions, from 1789 to 1917, a single U.S. senator could bar a congressional vote and, since then, a Senate minority can block Congress. Now the Senate’s historic power grab to prevent majority rule […]

When I served as Director of Admissions at Ohio Wesleyan in the early 1970s, one of the associate directors was Dick Payne, an African-American who’d been a track star at Ohio State. Dick and I had many open talks about work and life. One day he said to me, “Not a day goes by that […]

Is the world finally coming to grips with the wrongs I endured as a child growing up in the 1970s? I came of age before 24-hour cable news channels sensationalized childhood abductions and made every parent in America terrified that their kid was likely to become the next victim. We ‘70s kids were in constant […]

My friends and I are proud Yankee penny-pinchers, we even jokingly call ourselves “Miser Snobs” as we compete with each other to find the best bargains. But our frugality is the opposite of Scrooge, we try to save on everyday expenses so we can spend more on the people and things that really matter. The […]