“The first thing we have to do is put denial behind us.” That’s John Bullard, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s top federal fisheries regulator, speaking of The New England Fishery Management Council’s decision Wednesday to approve a whopping yearto year 77 percent reduction in the number of cod that can be caught in the […]

BY GORDON L. WEIL Maine is getting a lot of unexpected political attention these days. It has to do with how we vote for the president and vice president of the United States. Each state gets a number of votes equal to the total of its senators and representatives. These are votes in the Electoral […]

To the Editor: The Fleet Reserve Association was founded in 1924. It is made up of former enlisted members of the U.S. Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, and is a congressionally chartered nonprofit organization that represents the interests of the sea service community before the U.S. Congress. We have an active branch of the […]

Over the past few months, braving the cold and the rain, a number of us have stood at the polls and the post office gathering over 1,000 signatures on a petition asking the Brunswick Town Council to join a growing movement that urges Congress to overturn the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United. The 2010 […]