Tax-supported development can be a wonderful thing. Funded partially by surrendered property tax collections, it allows developers to do projects that provide public benefits: redevelopment of decrepit sites, employment, the ability to boost targeted business sectors, a chance to carry out a vision of planning and design. When it’s done right. When it’s done wrong, […]

Back when a dollar was worth something, our federal government spent $300 billion to win World War II. Expensive? Certainly. But consider the alternative. Americans rallied to the cause with government bonds to preserve democracy. Cementing his popularity and his patriotism, Bob Hope closed his radio shows with the memorable line: “Byebye and buy bonds.” […]

Well, indeed! We have yet another Obama flop that has cost over 1,000 lives. It’s the Muslim Brotherhood — the very same organization that has always aligned itself with Hamas and Hezbollah, and whose leader referred to Jewish people as “apes and pigs.” Forbes magazine — which published the quote — also asks the question […]

To the Editor: This is just my opinion, but I would hope that other Bath citizens are of a similar opinion that Bath City Council members have spent enough of their time and meetings on the sale of the old Bath Memorial Hospital. I believe it is time the Council is allowed to get on […]

To the Editor: I have a dream that we might carry out our humanitarian mission in Syria not by firing missiles, but by helping the thousands of refugees now cooped up for the indefinite future in refugee camps and the thousands of would-be refugees who don’t want to spend the rest of their lives in […]