In announcing his veto of LD 205, a bill that would have exempted nonprofit performing arts centers from having to pay says tax, Gov. Paul LePage attempted to portray himself as a fiscal watchdog and principled guardian of state sales tax exemptions. “Performing-arts organizations are important to the cultural fabric of Maine,” LePage wrote in […]

Holiday excess, non-stop TV sports and, most especially, the internecine strife amongst a disastrously weak covey of cacophonous Republican nestlings, all fighting for the dubious worm of nomination against a popular, pragmatic and politically skillful, even charismatic, incumbent, has me unplugged, back to reading of Catherine the Great and listening to “The Magic Flute.” For […]

To the editor: A recent letter to the editor by Raymond T. West, (“Out of Whack,” Jan. 4) gets the facts backwards, attacking the work done by my state representative, Seth Berry, to defend jobs and the middle class, and blaming the governor’s new budget gap on those losing benefits, not those receiving even more. […]

To the editor: If a village is needed to raise a child, it must take several communities to support a group of 200 students. The 2012 Mount Ararat Project Graduation Committee wants to take a moment to acknowledge local businesses and individuals for all of the help and encouragement they provided this past fall. In […]

Most Americans don’t spend a lot of time worrying about how much income other people have, or how much others pay in taxes. At least they don’t unless they are encouraged to do so by a president who has made class envy the centerpiece of his reelection campaign. President Obama’s frequent complaint that the wealthy […]