Healthcare and the November election The No.1 issue affecting Maine voters, according to a Bangor Daily News poll, is healthcare. No wonder: Affordable health care is essential to any prosperous society. But rising premiums, deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses now affect people at all economic levels in Maine. Our current system, weighed down with large administrative […]

Revolt and terror pay a price. Order and law have a cost. — Carl Sandburg, American poet and author (1878-1967)

Voting isn’t an exact science. Political junkies and academics aside, few spend much time, if any, making a study of what or who they’re to vote on or for. Far, far, far too many don’t vote at all. Not just this or that election, but never. Nothing in their immediately perceived world will significantly change […]

After a recent Chicago Cubs and Pittsburgh Pirates matchup, a reporter asked Bucs’ manager Clint Hurdle if he worried that the game had become “too sissified.” Abruptly, the interview’s tone shifted. Gone was the predictable post-game pap. Hurdle rejected the allegation that baseball has gone soft, and inferred that his 40 years as a major […]