2015
What a Load…
When I lived in England in the 1970s, I had season tickets to Leeds United Football Club. Our seats were under roof at midfield, but many stood on wide concrete steps called the “Kop” behind the goal to our right. Our seats cost 3 or 4 pounds while admittance to the KOP was a few […]
A letter to the legal director of ACLU of Maine
Please, Mr. (Zachary) Heiden, can we lighten up a bit? No doubt you are an astute and erudite barrister; however, your over-zealous approach is akin to an attorney whose bucking for a run for DA or a judgeship. In your and the ACLU’s witch hunt to find classroom materials to ban, please ban the Constitution […]
Governor’s income tax plan bad for Maine
One of the reasons our bellicose, tax-hating Governor gives for abolishing the income tax is that by doing so, more retirees will come to Maine. Sixteen years ago, I retired to Maine from a state that didn’t have an income tax. I chose to spend my retirement years in Maine because of the quality of […]
Death penalty not the answer for Tsarnaev
The Tsarnaev brothers killed and injured innocent Americans because they believed the United States is responsible for the deaths of innocent people in the Middle East. Now we wait to hear if Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will be put to death by our legal system. We would be taking revenge on two horribly misguided men who took […]
CALENDAR
TUE/14 “THE WORD: WRITTEN, SPOKEN, SUNG” FEATURING GIBSON FAYLEBLANC AND LADY ZEN, 7p.m., Patten Free Library. The two will read, peform, and talk about their work followed by a question and answer session with the audience. APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB SOLAR SOCIAL, 7p.m., Curtis Memorial library, Brunswick. Doors open at 6:30p.m. Learn about solar energy. NATIONAL […]
Dear Abby
DEAR ABBY: My husband, “Rory,” and I both come from close families. Whenever something is wrong, troublesome, etc., in either of our families, we have meetings where the entire immediate family comes together to discuss the issue. The problem is, I am not invited to his! It’s not like I’m a recent addition to this […]