Re: “Letter to the editor: Tidal power could prove winning industry for state” (Dec. 13): This was a well-composed perspective for a local engineering producer of energy in Maine, but at what level? Sometime back in the 1980s, I spent a holiday weekend cross-country skiing in northern New Hampshire. I stayed at a small lodge. […]

While awaiting the recent Republican rumble, I stumbled on “Field of Dreams” – a old movie that I’d forgotten I liked so much. I tuned in during the scene where Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner, looking as young and handsome as I once was) meets writer Terrence Mann (James Earl Jones) at Fenway Park. Shortly thereafter, […]

While Donald Trump and the outrage machine dominate our news with political soap opera, journalists are failing to report truly useful news. For example, buried in the 2,000-page omnibus budget bill, Congress quadrupled H-2B visas for low-skilled foreign workers, giving away 260,000 jobs, and flooding the labor markets of construction workers, motel-hotel services, truck drivers, […]