You could almost hear the collective groan from Mainers this week when temperatures plummeted back into the teens. Two things invariably followed: furnaces kicked on and couples argued over who it was that turned up the damned thermostat. For 40,000 Maine households — and about 1,300 in The Times Record’s coverage area — however, heating […]

Donald Trump faces a stark choice. He can tweet, or he can govern. He can indulge his persecution complex, firing off missives that compare Barack Obama to Joseph McCarthy and U.S. intelligence officers to Nazis, or he can recognize it as a gateway to disgrace and irrelevance. He can make his presidency about his own […]

One of the things we’ve lost in this country is our story. It is the narrative that unites us around a common multi-generational project, that gives an overarching sense of meaning and purpose to our history. For most of the past 400 years, Americans did have an overarching story. It was the Exodus story. The […]

The Affordable Care Act and its reform are causing confusion. Here’s what we know. It covers more people than did the free market system and changes some of the terms of insurance policies, but it does not abolish the market. Conservatives dislike it because they believe it substitutes government for the free market, costs too […]

My 22-month-old, blonde curly-haired granddaughter Phoebe has a sparkle that will melt your heart and a smile that will warm your soul. She lives in a world of constant discovery. “If I make a face, people laugh.” “If I jump in a mud puddle, good things happen.” “Some doggies are nice to pet; some aren’t.” […]

By this time readers of the Times Record have seen several articles about Rotary International, each focusing on an individual local Rotary Club. The Brunswick Rotary Club is this week’s topic. One of the mottos of Rotary International is “Service Above Self.” The Brunswick Rotary Club recognizes worthy local students for their commitment to their […]

President Trump promised good affordable health care for all Americans, which Obama Care certainly is not. House Speaker Paul Ryan seems intent on passing a new health care law that makes Obama Care look like the greatest thing since sliced bread. And now the President is backing Ryan’s cut rate plan and threatening those Congressmen […]

In 1832, a mob in Hiram, Ohio, attacked, tarred and feathered Mormon leaders Joseph Smith Jr. and Sidney Rigdon. In 1913, New York’s Palace Theatre, the legendary home of vaudeville, opened on Broadway. In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed a bill granting future independence to the Philippines. In 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis […]