If former President George W. Bush will be remembered as “The Decider,” as he famously dubbed himself in April 2006, Maine Gov. Paul LePage seems destined to go down in history as “The Divider.” Perhaps because a “divide and conquer” strategy propelled his successful campaign to capture the Blaine House in 2010, LePage can’t seem […]

Some people like butts — rappers, the Charmin bear and talc miners, for instance. But when it comes to cigarette butts, I, personally, am not a fan. Butts are a big part of my life, one, because I work for an organization called Forget Tobacco, whose mission is to show young people how great life […]

To the editor: I want to thank Rep. Kim Olsen of Phippsburg for opposing legislation that could destroy the Land Use Regulation Commission. LURC serves as the planning board and codes enforcement office for the Maine’s 10.5 million acre Unorganized Territories. Rep. Olsen showed independence and integrity in opposing provisions of LD 1798, a bill […]

To the editor: I would like to offer a belated but serious response to Gov. Paul LePage’s question, “Where is the outrage?” about Maine as a “nanny state.” I, too, wondered of the whereabouts of that emotion as I read that DHHS Commissioner Mary Mayhew knew, at least by January of this year, that MaineCare […]