My last column featured the closest primary election for a major Maine office of the last half century: the 1962 Democratic primary for governor. It was narrowly won by former Maine State…
By Paul Mills
In a nation poised to celebrate Memorial Day, it’s a fitting occasion to pay tribute to a former Maine governor who pulled off one of the most daring missions of…
By Paul Mills It’s the academic final stretch. Students are now both preparing for final exams and looking for ways to pay for their education. One way to help students cope are…
By Paul Mills It’s like a belt across the waist of Franklin County, and 25 years ago at this time, the buckle burst after being fed more than it could hold. It…
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…