There is no national issue more important than health care, and no issue more neglected. At times, it seems to be just a game between two amateur teams, the Obama-ites and the Tea Partiers. Three decades after every other developed nation achieved universal health care coverage — even such equally individualistic societies as Canada and […]

Winter was always a perilous time to be growing up in Brunswick. Between watching my friend Gary get swallowed beneath the ice of Smiley Pond and childhood’s puppy-like lack of grace, it’s a wonder any of us made it at all. Winter water was a common enemy of childhood — one that enthralled us at […]

Pingree’s Sudden Switch Pingree’s Sudden Switch Rep. Pingree recently sent an email to her constituents requesting stories about our experience with the Affordable Care Act. According to Rep. Pingree, she’s interested in fixing the broken parts. Obamacare was passed by Congress on March 21, 2010 with Rep. Pingree voting “yes.” It’s only now, over six […]

In 1793, Frenchman Jean Pierre Blanchard, using a hot-air balloon, flew between Philadelphia and Woodbury, New Jersey. In 1861, Mississippi became the second state to secede from the Union, the same day the Star of the West, a merchant vessel bringing reinforcements and supplies to Federal troops at Fort Sumter, South Carolina, retreated because of […]