Regarding Al Diamon’s recent opinion piece against the National Popular Vote initiative, whereby states would agree to give their electoral votes to the candidate who wins the national popular vote, rather than to the candidate(s) winning their state, thereby bypassing the Electoral College: It’s time to rethink the Electoral College, and a constitutional amendment (especially […]

I was astounded by Cumberland’s suggestion to move the sand/salt and wood/compost facilities to a proposed location on Greely Road. Greely Road is already in horrible shape and the road is posted for half the winter to prevent heavy trucks from destroying it even further. Our fleet of plow trucks, which easily exceed the posted […]

The Maine Legislature is in full swing for the 2019 session. There are many bills being proposed that will affect public education, the majority of them written with good intention and a desire to help students and/or professionals. Each day we open the doors for public school children we are required to implement state and […]

As many of you don’t know, for the past couple of years I’ve been, in my own small way, attempting to start a fad. I want to see men wearing hats like they did a couple of generations ago. The dictionary defines a fad as “an intense and widely shared enthusiasm for something, especially one […]

I know I’m skating on thin ice when I talk about someone else’s religion. I’m very apt to be accused of intolerance. But religious tolerance simply means accepting the religious views of others as long as they don’t try to force them on you. For instance, I accept the recent United Methodist Church re-assertion of […]

I want to personally thank former Town Councilor James MacLeod for his public comment at a recent Yarmouth Town Council meeting, when he encouraged the sitting council to create or update the job description for the town manager. Unbeknownst to many, we currently do not use a job description for our town manager, the position […]

There is an addiction crisis in our community. I felt such sadness to read of Christopher Reed Bowman, 28, and Colby Earles, 19, dying of unintended drug overdoses. First, I thank their families for being brave enough to write about their addiction; I also thank them for sharing the beauty, vibrancy and sensitivity of both […]

Oh swell, now I’m in bed with a racist. There I was half-awake on a peaceful Saturday morning, musing about what a horrible thing it would be if a bill before the Legislature to bypass the Electoral College in presidential elections and rely instead on the popular vote becomes law, when I rolled over to […]

News consumers in the age of Trump can’t help but notice the disturbing conjoining of journalism and government. Alleged leaks – the FBI tipping off CNN to an upcoming raid, or Democrat congressional aides distributing documents to the media before giving them to Republicans – prove how government officials and journalists secretly rely on each other to […]

I turn 70 this month. I might feel younger than my parents looked and felt at 70. Thanks to two new hips, I will walk without that limp my dad sported at 70. And due to some genetic fluke, I won’t have a head of gray hair like my mom at 70. What will I […]