Half the Earth’s population is either Christian or Muslim. The virtues and historical faults of these religions are remarkably similar. Islam currently is rent by conflict similar in brutality and fanaticism to Christianity’s Protestant-Catholic wars of the 16th and 17th centuries. A third of Germany’s population died in those wars. At last week’s National Prayer […]

Despite differences of opinion I have with Gov. LePage, I was pleasantly surprised by his State of the State address. His dignified deportment was a welcome contrast to the vulgarity he displayed during his first term and may bode well for improved behavior in the future. Although I don’t agree with all its provisions, he […]

Gov. LePage claims that doing away with the income tax will mean more money in all of our pockets. It will mean higher property taxes, as the residents of New Hampshire well know. My property taxes are 22 times higher than my state income tax. Something just doesn’t add up. Kendall Morse Scarborough

Maine citizens soon will have an opportunity to rein in big money in our elections. This past year, over 1,000 volunteers gathered more than 85,185 signatures in every county in the state to enable the Clean Elections Initiative to be placed on the ballot this November. On Jan. 21, over 200 people gathered in the […]