Films unite us and touch us and tell us who we are. Films reflect our values and shape our lives. Classic films are timeless and speak to all ages with universal themes such as: love, hate, joy, grief, sorrow, anger, jealousy and the need for family, friends, power and leadership. Films depict the tone of […]
2019
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Harold Pease: The Most Important Political Address of 2018
The United States is quickly becoming divided into the globalists and the patriots. They are at total war against each other. Since they are ideologically incomparable only one side can win. In time all will support one side or the other side. Readers already are, whether they are fully aware of what they support or […]
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Gene Lyons: What the internet’s doing to our … oh, look at this!
Among other eccentricities, I do not possess a smartphone and have never wanted one. It’s bad enough that I spend my working hours flitting around the internet like an over-caffeinated sparrow without carrying Google in my pocket. If I need to check the weather in Galway, Ireland, or Andrew Benintendi’s 2017 batting average, it can […]
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The Village Idiot: Customer Disservice Survey
After hanging up from a two hour-phone call with my cable TV provider, much of it spent waiting for a human, I immediately got an email asking me to fill out a customer service survey. The first question: Did my customer service representative solve my problem? No, but that’s not the right question. The first […]
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Home Country: Just Doc and Old Tom
It was strange, Doc thought. All these years. All these people. It still hurts. Old Tom had died around midnight, and Doc didn’t get more than an hour’s sleep since then. Just before he went, Tom reached out and gripped Doc’s hand and thanked him for everything. He was smiling when he went. Somehow that […]
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Gordon Weil: ‘The Art of the Deal’ yields no deal
President Trump and British Prime Minister May have something in common. They consider themselves adept at what Trump has famously called “the art of the deal.” Relying on their self-confidence, each has made a promise they could not keep. They lacked the skill to pull off promises that were, in fact, impossible to keep. They […]
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Legislators weigh in on committee assignments, expectations
YORK COUNTY — People who serve on juries in Maine are paid $15 a day, a rate that Rep. Donna Bailey of Saco believed has stayed the same for decades. Bailey, a longtime attorney and former York County Judge of Probate, has submitted a bill, L.D. 9, which would increase the daily rate for jurors […]
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Former Boston priest to be sentenced in March
ALFRED – A former Massachusetts priest found guilty of sexually abusing a young altar boy on trips to Maine in the late 1980s has been scheduled to be sentenced on March 5. Ronald Paquin, 76, was convicted on 11 of 24 counts of gross sexual misconduct at York County Superior Court on Nov. 28. Keith […]
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Hollis legislator leaves Republican party
HOLLIS — State Rep. Donald Marean has unenrolled from the Republican Party. Marean is a retired small business owner and lives in Hollis. He is serving his third consecutive term as the representative for House District 16, which covers Hollis and part of Buxton and Saco. He also served in the position from 2004 to […]
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New $5.4 million plan aims to ease congestion at Portland highway exit
The notoriously congested interchange connecting Interstate 295 and Franklin Street in Portland is slated for a $5.4 million reconstruction. Portland and the Maine Department of Transportation plan to widen the entrance ramps at Exit 7 and redesign part of Franklin Street, a broad thoroughfare that serves as a primary gateway to the downtown. Traffic engineers […]
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