By Paul Mills
It’s a time of year when ice is a reigning inconvenience. You can’t walk down the sidewalk without slipping on it or drive down the street without skidding on it.…
It’s an unspoken rule in the presidential playbook. Be firm, show emotion, but don’t cry.
Just last month, Candidate Gingrich exhibited it with his denunciation of the media in a debate that became…
By Paul Mills
Christmas: without doubt it's to most Americans the foremost holiday. So much so, it’s hard to believe that this has by no means been the case in Maine.…
By Paul Mills “They stripped me of everything I had.” Thus began Charlie Crafts’ 26-month odyssey as a prisoner of war in the jungles of Vietnam. Crafts, who now lives in Livermore,…
By Paul Mills Off to the polls we go and indeed – with the advent of early absentee voting – many vicariously if not otherwise have already gone. As with many of…
By Paul Mills
My last column featured Edie Beaulieu. She’s the cleaning lady who as a state legislator three decades ago led the successful campaign for mandatory smoke detectors. It’s a bill that…
Every year thousands of Maine children and adults endure nighttime fires in their homes or apartments. Nearly 100 percent of them live to tell about it.
Not so before 1982. For just thirty…
By Paul Mills The news that Senator Olympia Snowe may face not just one but two opponents in her quest to carry the GOP banner in next year’s senate race has already…
By Paul Mills
A changing of the guard of historic proportions is now occurring in Augusta. For the first time since the Maine government which convened in January l963, Republicans will soon be…