NORTH BERWICK (AP) — Gov. Paul LePage will hold his next town hall meeting in North Berwick, where he will focus on issues such as reducing income taxes. LePage’s town hall will take place at Noble High School at 6 p.m. on Wednesday. The governor plans to answer questions from residents at the event. LePage […]
August 2016
Contrasting the Clintons and LePage
While he was president Bill Clinton lied to the American people on national TV, committed perjury multiple times, suborned perjury and obstructed justice. As the NY Times put it in December 1998: “We believe the evidence presents an ironclad case that he [President Clinton] lied, by plan and repetitiously, while under oath in a civil […]
QUOTE OF THE DAY
One has a greater sense of intellectual degradation after an interview with a doctor than from any human experience. — Alice James
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, Aug. 24, the 237th day of 2016. There are 129 days left in the year. In 1572, the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacre of French Protestants at the hands of Catholics began in Paris. In 1814, during the War of 1812, British forces invaded Washington, D.C., setting fire to the Capitol (which was […]
On the Maine Minimum Wage Increase Initiative
This proposal will appear as Question 4 on the ballot in November. It will propose an increase to $9.00 per hour in 2017 and an annual increase of one dollar an hour each year until 2020 for a wage of $12 per hour. It is also proposes that this wage will increase incrementally with the […]
Open Letter to MCHT and Brunswick Topsham Land Trust
I am writing you to express my disappointment in the activities of both the Maine Coast Heritage Trust and the Brunswick Topsham Land Trust in the matter of the property acquired by the town of Brunswick for non-payment of taxes at 946 Merepoint Rd. I live right next door to this property at 942 and […]