Maine desperately needs more nurses. A lot more. Current projections indicate a statewide shortage of 3,200 nurses by the year 2025. If we don’t address this daunting challenge, the outcome could be devastating, affecting the very care all of us receive in hospitals, health care facilities, clinics and medical offices across Maine. The public universities […]

Proposed farm to big not to imperil bay Those of us opposed to the Maquoit Bay Oyster Farm have been accused of NIMBYism. I plead guilty. I also assume Doug Niven, who chose the location for this project out of sight of his house and the houses of his neighbors in the Mere Point Colony, […]

This weeks’ political quiz.  One the following is true and one is false. (a) “All politics is local.” (b) Money is the lifeblood of politics. The correct answer is (b).  It makes (a) false. The reverse was once true, with election campaigns conducted on a “retail” face-to-face basis on issues that were matters of state […]

Someone who spent 38 years teaching French to middle school students, a group a friend once called “hormonal milkshakes,” might want to spend retirement getting some well-earned rest. But Brunswick resident Edie Kilgour just keeps on going … and going. Edie and her husband David retired, er, moved to Brunswick from Connecticut in 2002, and […]