OK, so the city of Bath takes a building it purchased for $1, assesses it at $6.5 million then sells it for $799,000. Deal or no deal? Councilors made the deal. But they did it privately. Now taxpayers are left wondering how it happened, and why. The first thing officials wanted us to know about […]

Maine has 20-plus weeks of frigid, gray winter and about two seeks of summer. When you’re hot and the AC breaks, or when you feel sticky after that shower, or when the power goes out and you can’t watch that season of “Glee,” remember our long cold slog will be here before you know it. […]

When it comes to money, Americans live in two different countries. Most people live in a country where they have jobs or seek work to pay their cost of living and put something away for retirement. They put their money in banks. Their country is slowly emerging from the worst economic slowdown in their lifetimes. […]

Dick Cheney’s daughter wants to be a senator! To give Wyoming a conservative voice! Well, it’s about time somebody thought of that. “Over the last several years, citizens across our great state have urged me to consider running for the Senate,” Liz Cheney said, announcing her candidacy via YouTube. A couple of problems with that […]

To the Editor: As a citizen of Maine, I am totally embarrassed by our flaunting tea party governor’s bad manners. He is a sad, pathetic, insecure “boy” who will continue being an idiot. He reminds me of the founder of the John Birch Society ultranut, (U.S.) Sen. Joe McCarthy, who went around bullying and intimidating […]

To the Editor: Nothing seems to have changed over the years. It used to be that people arrested with a connection to the Navy were quickly pointed out as “former Navy” or, in one case, “ex-wife of former Navy officer.” Now it seems that it is our police. Your July 10 article about Adonis Hill […]

The exoneration of George Zimmerman cemented America as the land of the free and the home of the paranoid. Vigilantism was not merely vetted by a six-woman jury in Sanford, Fla. It was lifted to an exalted status where the overzealous can put themselves above the police with fatal consequences — and no consequence. What […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is back in the headlines on the subject of Iran. On CBS’s ”Face the Nation,” Netanyahu complained that there was “no sense of urgency” by the global community about Iran’s advancing nuclear program. He went on to warn that Israel will “have to address this question of how to stop […]