Yes, I drive a car that uses gas, heat my home with oil and consume as much electricity as the next 21st century American. So, no, I can’t get all holier than thou about energy consumption. Still, I am opposed to Central Maine Power Co.’s so-called New England Clean Energy Connect proposal to build a […]

Eric Brakey doesn’t like Republicans. Which is odd, because Brakey is – more or less by default – the GOP’s candidate for U.S. Senate. Brakey, a two-term state senator from Auburn, got the nomination because no serious Republican dared to take on incumbent independent U.S. Sen. Angus King. (Before you rush to email me that […]

On Nov. 6, the voters of Yarmouth will have the opportunity to provide our growing student population with updated, right-sized schools. The two bond questions on the ballot propose a major renovation of Yarmouth Elementary School and an expansion of Yarmouth High School (Question 1) and additions to Rowe School and Harrison Middle School (Question […]

Who couldn’t use an escape from the real world, especially now as insanity in the public sphere runs amok. What we need is a good book to take us away, like a long soak in Calgon, to different times, different lives, different everything. Luckily for escapee-wannabees, PBS, that great American publicly funded broadcasting network (which […]

I cherish my collection of everything zebra, gained over the past few years: A piggy bank, a wooden one with straw mane and tail, another with ribbon-reins, a postcard photo of six zebras. I especially treasure the teeniest, the plastic one my friend Karen gave me the day after we did that yoga. Years ago, […]

State Rep. Janice Cooper, D-Yarmouth, has a long history of advocating for women’s rights, and a woman’s right to make their own health-care decisions. A vote for Janice is a vote to protect our own rights, as well as the future of our children’s rights to their own bodies. In an time when the Maine […]