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PublishedJanuary 3, 2020
Gordon Weil: Good news, bad news about the economy
The economy is financed by debt, the environment and a stagnant labor force.
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2020
Giving Voice: SNAP benefits and how changes will impact Mainers
The holiday season is ending and the long winter months await Mainers everywhere. While many Mainers enjoy the winter, it can add burdens to many struggling individuals and families who now have to find money to heat their homes among the cost of so many other things. Due to three new proposals to cut back […]
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2020
Your Land: Looking up after the turn
Two days after the solstice had marked the end of our decent into darkness, I went to Brunswick’s Simpson’s Point for some time on foot, and to watch — if my timing was right — the sunset. I parked on the narrow road’s empty edge and set out on a favored loop into upper Pennelville. […]
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PublishedJanuary 3, 2020
Maine Maritime Museum offering free admission in January
In honor of Maine’s bicentennial, Maine Maritime Museum is offering free admission this month. Thanks to a grant from the Davenport Trust Fund, admission fees will be waived through Jan. 31, giving visitors the opportunity to explore the museum free of charge, including the new exhibit The Frozen Kingdom: Commerce & Pleasure in the Maine […]
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2020
Over the next decade: Focusing on the future
It seems to be commonly held that 2019 is the end of the decade and thus we begin the new decade now. I hold the minority view that the new decade doesn’t begin until 2021 because the first year wasn’t year zero, it was year one. However, with respect to the ease of round numbers […]
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2020
Tom Purcell: Don’t take cyber scammers’ bait in 2020
One of 2019’s biggest stories will be bigger in 2020: Cyber scams are on the rise. “As people increasingly conduct business and live their lives online, more and more criminals are leveraging the internet to steal,” reports Forbes’ Stu Sjouwerman. The dirty rotten scammers continue to evolve, too, targeting businesses, government organizations and individuals alike […]
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PublishedJanuary 2, 2020
Intertidal: A new year means new opportunity
According to the definition of the solstice, it is a time when the sun appears to stand still. Solstice comes from the Latin sol for sun and sistere for stand still. At the moment of the solstice, the angle between the sun’s rays and the earth’s equator looks like it doesn’t change for a long […]
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PublishedDecember 31, 2019
Guest column: Why the race for the presidency begins with the Iowa caucus
The first and most visible test of candidate support in the 2020 presidential election is the Iowa presidential caucus, which takes place on Feb. 3. While Iowa does not control who becomes the candidate of each party, Iowans’ choices almost always end up matching the rest of the nation. One of the architects of the […]
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PublishedDecember 31, 2019
Dick Polman: A fresh gesture of concern from the fellowship of the furrowed brow
Oh swell. The Republican Senate’s so-called “moderates,” who combine big talk with little action and fuse noble rhetoric with hapless inertia, appear to be readying themselves for another year of deeming certain Trump desecrations as “unhelpful” or “unwise.” One member of this club – which I call the Fellowship of the Furrowed Brow – spoke […]
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PublishedDecember 30, 2019
Letter: Impeach Speaker Pelosi?
Let me see if I get this right. If “The Senate shall have the sole Power to try all Impeachments,” by withholding and using the articles of impeachment as leverage to get Sen. McConnell to get her approval of how the Senate will try the impeachment, Speaker Pelosi is guilty of abusing her power as […]
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