I’m pro-immigrant. I think Maine needs all the new people it can get, and I don’t care where they come from. Unless it’s New Hampshire. Bunch of unmitigated pissants there, full of themselves just because they have cheap liquor and no sales or income taxes. But otherwise, I’m all for more immigrants, regardless of race, […]

Punishing days at an all-out pace. Severe climbs and diving descents testing riders’ stamina and courage. Sharp corners with who-knows-what lying invisible just around the bend. Massive pile-ups claiming too many victims. The Tour de France just wrapped up its three-week odyssey around one of the most beautiful countries in the world. The Alps, the […]

One bright summer morning with hundreds of drivers looking for “The Way Life Should Be,” I am headed south when I intend to go north. Why? Because, in Scarborough, I’ve ignored my cousin’s directions. She said, “From where you are, go north on Route 1 to pick up the turnpike to Westbrook. We can meet […]

At 17 years old, I am proud to be a woman and proud to empower other women to use their voices. For more than a year, I have volunteered at least once a week at Planned Parenthood. I’ve always known that Planned Parenthood’s services could be threatened or shut down by our government. I’ve taken […]

When are Falmouth and its symbiotic affiliates, such as the Falmouth Memorial Library, going to stop squeezing its taxpayers for ever-increasing dollars? Several years ago, the library convinced voters to approve a bond, with concomitant funds from independent donors, for library expansion. The library, only through a generous, anonymous matching gift, succeeded at the very […]

There’s a meme that’s been making the internet rounds again, which is a shame. I thought we’d seen the last of it. Apparently not. It exists in several forms, but the general gist is this: the meme contains pictures of several past first ladies, all looking very well dressed and proper, and then at the […]

Thunderstorms around New York City last week caused a cascade of air travel woes such that I found myself driving to Bangor at midnight to pick up daughter Nora and her family as they returned from the other Portland. They had been scheduled to land at PWM at supper hour, but ended up dumped in […]

I get lots of email about crazed plots to undermine the integrity of our electoral system. In any given week, people wearing tinfoil hats and stockpiling cryptocurrencies are eager to inform me about sinister forces seeking to thwart democracy by using lasers from spy satellites to alter ballots or tunneling under polling places to switch […]

I disagree with Edgar Allen Beem’s recent column on the primary election and the race for governor (“Primary post-mortem: Trouble ahead”). Beem says, “the Dems gave Janet Mills ‘a narrow victory.’” Mills had a strong showing throughout the state, especially in all the rural counties. The Dems had a field of seven outstanding candidates running, […]

Residents, non-residents, and businesses have purchased houses within South Portland residential neighborhoods. These houses are non-owner occupied and are rented out as mini hotels, for one purpose and one purpose only: to make money. There is certainly nothing wrong with making money, but when the need to make excessive amounts of money has a definitive negative […]