Maine Republicans are intent on doing stupid. Being in the minority in the Legislature, it might appear there’s not much else for them to do. But you’d think doing stupid wouldn’t be…
I am not the only Mainer disappointed with, and disillusioned by, the Maine Supreme Court’s decision to validate CMP’s lease of Maine Public Land (MPL) in Segment 1, for their proposed NECEC…
I’ve been doing what I can to protect the environment since I was a child. At first, the best I could do was pick up recyclables and trash. I’d have my parents…
It’s saddening, yet woefully predictable, that Republican Senator Russell Black voted against the bi-partisan emergency relief bill meant to address rising heating oil costs. We’re left guessing about the Senator’s sudden opposition…
My plan this week was to write a scathing column about the Maine Supreme Judicial Court’s boneheaded decision allowing Central Maine Power to run its energy corridor to Massachusetts across public lands…
Last week Senator Russell Black voted against and blocked a one-time emergency $450-check heating energy bill intended for 850,000 Mainers. Seven of his fellow Republicans joined him even though our need for…
You need a permit to walk around downtown. You need a license to dance. Warren Zevon, “Life’ll Kill Ya” Maine requires members of an awful lot of professions to get permission from…
Last night I was awakened by a low flying aircraft and a blast of wind that followed. The combination led me to recall auditory signals that might precede a nuclear blast. I…
Computers have been with us for a long time now. My father used them in 1970 while studying Electrical Engineering Technology. They used punch cards to input machine code and output results.…
Now that the election is over, and Democrats are firmly in control of everything in Augusta, they can get back to doing what they do best: Giving jobs to political hacks. On…