Pollsters are taught to frame questions in terms such as “people like yourself.” For example, “Do you believe that free trade has hurt people like yourself?” These days, pollsters and pundits alike…
This isn’t easy to write, but James Longley was correct. Maine’s state university system has too many campuses. For more than 50 years, many Americans and, certainly, most academicians have believed that…
As a farmer selling exclusively to local, by which I mean Maine, people, I preached the gospel of buying locally. Most of us know the numbers. A dollar spent at a locally…
“You’ll never get me into one of those places,” our friend said as we drove past the 168-year-old brick church. We had detoured about a block to show her where a fiddler…
By Bob Neal Hugh Hefner built a career and a Playboy fortune on men looking at women’s bodies. Among even those of us who think of ourselves as evolved, it still goes…
By Bob Neal When out-of-staters ask us where we live in Maine, my wife invariably says “Central Maine, and I invariably say “Western Maine.” We cannot both be correct, yet it is…
"Liberal," the sports editor said, "on the provincial level, but Conservative on the federal."
I was new to Montreal and to Canadian politics, and I had asked my colleague about his party affiliation.…