Probably like many of you, I spent about 6 1/2 or seven hours over Thanksgiving weekend not shopping, but binge-watching “Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life.” That’s right. I watched all of the four-episode Netflix revival that picks up a decade after TV land thought it had seen the last of Lorelai, Rory, Luke […]

For all of the 32 years that we lived in Yarmouth, we enjoyed the fact that our little neighborhood of Capes and ranches bordered a 30-acre wood with a sandpit. This little undeveloped vestige of forest, sand and gravel was a wonderful playground for children and dogs. The idea that 26 expensive houses might one […]

Maine’s major juvenile corrections facility in South Portland has been in the spotlight recently after the news broke of a suicide there. In the hours after that horrible tragedy, shock and sadness swept through the Long Creek Youth Correctional Center, and staff reeling from the news worried about the impact on the other young people […]

I am thankful that the woman who wrote “Mary Had A Little Lamb” also campaigned for decades to make Thanksgiving a national holiday. I am thankful that the man who wrote the Gettysburg Address also wrote the proclamation scheduling Thanksgiving for the final Thursday in November. I am thankful to have a history of Thanksgivings […]

Edgar Allen Beem’s column about the electorate’s emotional breakdown (The Universal Notebook: “5 stages of election grief”) seems to me to be a classic example of journalism’s liberal arrogance and condescension. Instead of pointing out the elitism and misuse of the “politics of identity” deployed by the losing side, he invents (with a rhetorical device) […]

In his diatribe against the Electoral College (“Policy Wonk: Not all votes are created equal”), columnist Orlando Delogu comes across not as an astute public policy analyst, but a mere writer of partisan talking points to fortify his party’s wish to blame its sweeping election defeat on something other than a rejection of its policies. […]