It seems like just yesterday that the Republican Party’s idea of comprehensive immigration reform consisted of electrified border fences, cracking down on “anchor babies” and self-deportation. At least that’s what it sounded like during the long GOP primary campaign last year, which culminated with Republican standard bearer Mitt Romney capturing a mere 27 percent of […]

TAKE ME TO PARKVIEW. You’ve seen the bumper stickers. You’ve read the letters to the editor right here in this newspaper. The community was asked to weigh in on Parkview’s joining Central Maine Healthcare in late October, and the community responded. The community told Department of Health and Human Services officials they want Parkview to […]

Like many advocates of financial reform, I was a bit disappointed in the bill that finally emerged. Dodd-Frank gave regulators the power to rein in many financial excesses; but it was and is less clear that future regulators will use that power. As history shows, the financial industry’s wealth and influence can all too easily […]

To the Editor: We are very lucky to live in a part of the world relatively devoid of extreme violence, political upheaval, poverty and all the other bits of chaos we witness in the news on a regular basis. I do, however, think it is important for us to remind ourselves that we are not […]

To the Editor: The next gubernatorial election is two years away, and it’s way too early to speculate who the Democratic nominee will be. But we do know that Maine can’t afford another failed chief executive, and it can’t afford any further retrenching into the unworkable conservative policies we’ve had to live with for the […]