When our new Legislature begins the first 2015 session, there will be a lot of talk about creating good-paying jobs and attracting new businesses to Maine. Maine needs to do both, but before we get lost in partisan rhetoric, it would be good to consider the results of a recent survey published in Area Development […]

The federal government is composed of three branches: the legislative, the judicial and the executive. I now believe that the legislative branch – Congress – has become the broken branch of our government. Congress has been dysfunctional because it is incapable of compromising, and congressmen are more interested in representing their party than in representing […]

Unlike protesters around the nation, I’m for the police, not the criminals. The police have a thankless job and are rarely commended. I urge them to continue profiling (many criminals are apprehended this way) and not to let their guard down! When a punk or thug is shot and killed by a cop, people are […]

You have made some New Year’s resolutions. You will implement these promises into your daily routine for a week or so before you break them. It may be easier not to exercise the following 10 bad examples: 1. Do not say “Sat’day” beyond Maine’s borders. People outside of the Pine Tree State still believe that […]

A recent editorial (“Our View: House speaker’s focus on jobs the right priority,” Dec. 29) included in its subheadline a reference to the governor’s “strong victory” in the November election. I would have to take exception to this characterization, asserting that any elected official who has never managed to garner even 50 percent of the […]