In 1765, Eli Whitney, inventor of the cotton gin, was born in Westborough, Massachusetts. In 1854, Pope Pius IX proclaimed the Catholic dogma of the Immaculate Conception, which holds that Mary, the mother of Jesus, was free of original sin from the moment of her own conception. In 1863, President Abraham Lincoln issued his Proclamation […]

Some people don’t believe in climate change. They just don’t. Despite an overwhelming consensus of world scientists insisting that global warming is real, and repeatedly warning of dire consequences, some people refuse to accept that reality. Their reality is that long-term weather variances and increasingly destructive meteorological events are just normal cyclical extremes that will […]

Since 2010, average residential New England electric rates have increased by 20 percent. But in Maine, they have remained essentially flat. Liberals, special interests and the Democrats in the Legislature are constantly trying to carve out gravy trains for wealthy energy companies, then make you pay for it. Not on my watch! That’s why our […]