As a member of the Portland Board of Education, I work with limited resources to make sure our public schools serve every student well. It’s no easy task, and sometimes we have to count on our state lawmakers to help us. That’s why I am so proud to support Heather Sanborn in her campaign for […]

In this day and age, we receive so many phone calls that are scams, whether it’s to try to bilk money or steal our Social Security. We must be careful, as there is always someone trying to fool us. Which brings to mind, as I sit here and write, again, another check to the city […]

I have now read a news article and a column in the Portland Press Herald about the troubling photos taken of John D. Williams, the man accused of killing Somerset County Sheriff’s Office Cpl. Eugene Cole. The most recent condemnation of these photos came from columnist Bill Nemitz, and was accompanied by those troubling photos. […]

In his hand-wringing column of May 3 (“Photos raise troubling questions about arrest of suspect in corporal’s killing“), Bill Nemitz tortuously explores how the “ghastly” capture and arrest photos of accused cop-killer John D. Williams, one taken when he was on the ground and the other showing him with a black eye, were – gosh […]