Opinions are great, everybody has one. Adult decisions, however — like voting — require facts. With regard to the 2016 presidential elections, some of the most pressing concerns for the American people are health, wealth, food, education and jobs. In that context, we need to decide, as citizens, what is a right and what is […]

Nothing is really real unless it happens on television. — Daniel J. Boorstin, educator and Librarian of Congress (1914-2004)

“First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.” That was Mahatma Gandi’s famous advice on overturning an oppressive established order. In the Democratic race for the White House, Hillary Clinton represents the established order that Bernie Sanders wants to make more equitable, not in fits and starts, […]

Today is Thursday, March 3, the 63rd day of 2016. There are 303 days left in the year. On this date: In 1845, Florida became the 27th state. In 1913, more than 5,000 suffragists marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., a day before the presidential inauguration of Woodrow Wilson. In 1923, Time magazine, founded […]

On Feb. 24, the Woolwich Solid Waste and Recycling Committee (SW&RC) met as it does each month to monitor and consider how this inland pennisular town disposes of and recycles the waste that we, roughly 3,000 Mainers, not counting dogs and cats, or Llamas for that matter, regularly produce. This committee recommended last spring that […]