As part of the unending quest by certain groups to drum Maine into another socialist paradise like Venezuela, Maine voters in November will again be faced with yet another misleadingly worded “referendum.” This one is given the golly-gee-who-could-be-against-that-title of “Universal Home Care.” Sounds appealing — “free” home care for the elderly and disabled? Think: “there […]

Long before she was a published author, and years before she served two terms in the Maine State Legislature, Maria Holt, now 88, left her hometown of Farmington and traveled with a girlfriend to enroll in a prestigious public nursing program in New York City. The city had an innovative visiting nurse service, created in […]

Vote Vitelli Our political environment seems to reach new lows every day. I say to myself each morning that it can’t get any worse, but each day it does. Our national political news dominates our experience so much that it drowns out local and state news that effect our lives much more directly. In this […]

On August 7, 1964, Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, giving President Lyndon B. Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces. The Associated Press