So disappointing. Another vote against wind energy in Maine. According to a recent article in this paper (“Maine board sets stage for rejection of $100 million wind project,” May 2), the Board of Environmental Protection, in a preliminary vote, gave its blessing to 29 of 30 required benchmarks, but rejected the Bowers Wind farm on […]

Recently, there was a media firestorm over the liberal activist group Maine People’s Alliance launching an attack on Rep. Dale Crafts, R-Lisbon Falls, for having “no spine” and failing to “stand up” to Gov. Paul LePage. Rep. Crafts is handicapped and has used a wheelchair ever since a motorcycle accident left him paralyzed 26 years […]

While I was in Texas the last two weeks of March, a local Houston station stated that Texas was in the top 10 for business improvement outlook over the next few years, and the top three were Maine, South Dakota and North Carolina. This took me by surprise, so I started looking into why that […]

According to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other well-known organizations, approximately 100,000 deaths each year are attributed to alcohol consumption. Of these, 88,000 are attributed to excessive alcohol use. Five percent of all deaths from diseases of the circulatory system are attributable to alcohol. So are 15 percent of deaths from […]