Some things in life are essential – beer, the MLB Network, caller ID – and some things aren’t – tofu, Jay Leno, the Maine Department of Economic and Community Development.…
“Augusta’s projections of future revenue are always much too optimistic.”
- Republican gubernatorial candidate Bruce Poliquin, blog posting, Dec. 8
“I believe you have to put 110 percent into doing what is right to…
Raise your glasses and toast the financial genius who – without increasing taxes, cutting services or employing accounting gimmicks – solved Maine's budget crisis.
Me.…
The problem with being virtuous (or so I’m told) is that it has almost nothing to do with actual virtue.
But let’s give the virtuous the benefit of the doubt. Their aversion to…
Last spring, after the state Legislature rejected a bill that could have resulted in a wind farm being constructed on two undeveloped mountains in Redington Township, a lot of people in western…
Olympia Snowe is doomed.
Well, maybe not entirely doomed, but kinda doomed.
She might survive her 2012 campaign for re-election to a fourth term in the U.S. Senate, but not without serious damage. Or,…
The Maine Turnpike Authority wants to pay between $34 million and $56 million to build a new toll plaza in York. Don't let that huge price tag fool you. What the MTA…
Welcome to the 2009 post-election trauma center. If you're here to donate organs, we've got a long waiting list for brains. We could also use spines and guts, but we don't need…
With the end of another campaign season, it's time to recognize those who may not have been successful in influencing voters, but were clear winners in eliciting derisive snorts.
In this nostril-honking pursuit,…
This Halloween, if you want to scare the crap out of your favorite political activist – liberal or conservative – skip the fright mask, fake blood and glowing green goop. That stuff…