It was a pleasure to attend the fund-raiser for Haitian relief co-sponsored by St. Joseph's Catholic Church and the Farmington Rotary on Thursday. It was crowded with people anxious to help and…
The ACLU is tree tolerant and wants everyone to know it. This year, just for example, the Hawaii Civil Liberties Union has brought suit in defense of that state’s holiday tree display.…
Forty-five years ago I read a campaign speech by Lyndon Johnson in which he called upon the voters to have "faith" in their government. That is the point at which my dislike…
Last Friday Sen David Trahan (Rep. Wiscasset,etc) and Charles Webster, the Republican State Committee Chairman, presented the secretary of state with 60,473 signatures by citizens petitioning to veto LD 1495.…
Back in 2006 the liberal Brookings Institution published Charting Maine’s Future with a portfolio of economic development recommendations. Governor Baldacci welcomed it as a “blueprint for Maine’s future” and all the legislators…
Years ago Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, wrote an essay arguing that successful government programs had to be simple, with minimal bureaucratic entaglements, to succeed. His models were social security in its original…
“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.”…
During 32 years as a chalk-smeared academic foot-soldier I corrected over 10,000 term papers and essays. Most were mediocre, a few were brilliant, and some dazzled me in another way. E.g., there…