Gunmen opened fire at a French satire magazine Wednesday, killing 12. The writers and cartoonists were guilty of poking fun at just about everything, from the politics of the day, to social mores, to religion. Religion. All kinds of religion. No one was immune, and the humor was not gentle. Boko Haram’s rape victims scream […]

Sometimes it’s easy to see why people think government is too big. Take a recent news report in Maine papers. In many towns, to get a license to dig claims commercially, you have to do two things. You pay the annual fee and you put in some time cleaning up and reseeding the clam flats. […]

I’m not a huge fan of John Boehner. But now that he has both houses of Congress to work with, let’s give him a chance to move the Republican offense down the field to the end zone. After fighting off a challenge to his speakership this week, Boehner has held on to his job as […]

Contrary to James Sanoski’s opening statement in his letter “ The U. S. A. — a Christian nation,” (Jan. 7) the United States was not “founded on Christian principles.” Nowhere in the Constitution is Christianity established as the national religion of the United States; in fact, the Constitution of the United States expressly bans laws […]

About a year ago the Brunswick School Board voted to move our 5th grade students from the Harriet Beecher Stowe School to the Brunswick Junior High building. That decision was made at a time when the information on which it was made was incomplete and our community’s understanding of the implications of such a change […]

In the early 1950s, I was a big Cleveland Indians fan. The Indians were a fine team, mind you, but they usually wound up second to the dreaded New York Yankees. On Sunday, June 14, 1953, my dad drove me from our home in Parkersburg, West Virginia, to Cleveland to see a doubleheader against the […]

The Evening Star, April 6, 1887, reported: “Maine Buried in Snow. A northeast snowstorm, more furious than any of the great tempests of the winter months, began on the coast of Maine early Saturday morning, April 2, and continued until Monday afternoon, April 4. All day Saturday and through the night the wind blew a […]

BY MICHAEL MCMANUS “The righteous care about justice for the poor, but the wicked have no such concern.” — Proverbs 29:7 Since 2009, the U.S. minimum wage has been $7.25 an hour. In the years it has been frozen the cost of living has risen 10 percent. However, this week 21 states raised their minimum […]

The vote on West Bath’s continued participation in RSU 1 will be held in the next few weeks and it is a decision that West Bath residents will weigh carefully. It is up to West Bath voters to decide whether children attending grades K-5 and residing in the community would be better educated in a […]