This is the week we pause to celebrate the life and work of the late Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And rightly so; Dr. King was a man of great conviction, passion, and vision. I’ve been thinking a lot about his work and about how his story gets told. I want to speak more […]

I was listening to Gov. Janet Mills’ inauguration on my car radio when I was stunned by the voices of two little girls singing the Alicia Keys’ hit “Girl on Fire.” The power of their voices moved me to tears. When I got home, I went right to my computer where I found that others, […]

Ranked-choice voting is the methamphetamine of politics. Once you start using it, you can’t stop, even though your teeth fall out, your internal organs fail, and you develop skin conditions so gross they’d cause Dr. Pimple Popper to run screaming from the room. But like meth addicts, fans of ranked-choice are resolute in their belief […]

Last week, I performed the dreaded deed of registering my car at the town hall. Fun, fun. Because of work and a delay in the mail, it actually took me about a month to finally have the chance to physically get to the town hall to do what needed to be done to drive legally […]

In his pro-wall column, John Balentine failed to mention that border crossings have fallen steadily or that Trump’s steel slat wall is breachable by tools from Home Depot. That’s “heat” over “light” in my book. Balentine picks a single “light” source: “Acting” Chief Border Patrol Agent Raul Ortiz. Backed by police, border patrol, camouflaged military […]

I rarely agree with John Balentine, but I do agree that the press must use facts to educate citizens on the efficacy (or lack thereof) of Trump’s proposed border wall. In this regard, consider the following: • U.S. Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, who represents a district covering more of our southern border than any other […]

I have lived in Falmouth for my entire life. It’s not like Portland with its many hotels. It’s not like Freeport with its shopping, or Cumberland with its many athletic fields. Our town has its own things. Beautiful trials and picturesque oceans. Building hotels, soccer fields, shopping centers, and housing complexes would mask our town’s […]

Instead of watching the Clemson-Alabama NCAA title game last week, I watched a dumb movie called “Brewster’s Millions,” in which Richard Pryor plays a washed up baseball player who will inherit $300 million if he can spend $30 million in 30 days without accruing assets. Spoiler alert: he succeeds. But somehow the hilarious Pryor didn’t […]

Janet Mills is a liberal fiend. The newly inaugurated Democratic governor is raising taxes, seizing guns, importing illegal immigrants, providing welfare to lazy slobs, and legalizing publicly funded abortions for the entire nine months of pregnancy and even afterwards for kids who play violent video games or have the audacity to return home to live […]

Light allows us to see things for what they are. Without light, we’re blind. And life is hard when you’re blind. Likewise, current events would be impossible to decipher without the press shedding light on what’s happening. We rely on its members to show us the truth. The press covers just about every facet of […]