Letter to the Editor: Card frustration

What the hell has happened to men’s billfolds? I remember when men carried a thin leather envelope that contained some folding money and a paper driver’s license. You never even knew it…

Politics & Other Mistakes: Too soon

That’s it? That’s the budget that was supposed to transform Maine into – depending on your political orientation – either a business friendly, job-creating, profit-making paradise of free-market capitalism – or an…

Legislative Update: A promise kept

Two years ago during my first session in the Legislature the first bill I submitted was to pay a debt owed to Maine’s hospitals. I sought to use some of the stimulus…

Target Rich Environment: Quo vadis Olympia?

It was widely reported that Maine’s senior senator was seriously upset when a” tea party candidate” defeated Rep. Mike Castle in the 2010 Delaware Republican primary. CNN reported that  “The longer Snowe…

Politics & Other Mistakes: I want fireworks

I’m a law-abiding citizen.

Except when I’m not.

So far, I’ve managed to avoid committing murder, rape, robbery, assault, pillaging, insider trading or violating any leftover protection-from-abuse orders.…

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