The campaign is over. Now for the fun stuff. No, not the results. The results are boring. (Unless they aren’t. I’m writing this before any votes have been counted, so if John…
I’m in favor of politicians telling lies. Wait, that didn’t come out quite right. While it’s true that candidates’ falsehoods, fibs and fabrications make a columnist’s job easier, I could still eke…
As a resident of Maine’s 2nd Congressional District (motto: We’re The District You Didn’t Visit On Your Vacation, Because We Don’t Have Much In The Way Of Apple Stores, Uzbek Cuisine Or…
Imagine this: A developer suddenly shows up in your rundown little town and announces plans for a multi-million-dollar project. It would create lots of good jobs. It would be environmentally sensitive and…
As the world teetered on the brink of another Great Depression (“I dunno, Doc, I just can’t get excited about being a planet, anymore. This whole orbiting-the-sun thing is so, like, 16th…
Spotting environmentalists used to be easy. You didn’t need to look for hemp clothing or sandals made from recycled tires. You didn’t have to hike through the puckerbrush to yurts heated with…
The state of Maine doesn’t give away money. Well, except for the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Economic Development, the Department of Transportation and the state treasurer. But…
Several angry readers have demanded that I apologize to State Treasurer David Lemoine. They’re upset by a recent column, in which I suggested Lemoine should be dismissed from his position of public…
No more local beer. It pains me to write that, but it must be done. We’ve got to kill off Maine’s brewing industry for the greater good. There’s more. Those people making…
John Frary is a politician in the same sense that I’m the commissioner of Major League Baseball. That’s not a perfect analogy. Remaking Frary into a campaign-savvy huckster in a trendy suit…