Creating a water overlay district is the correct first step for the Falmouth Town Council in its efforts to provide clarity around water view protection and to clean up the unintended consequences of the 2006 amendment to the zoning ordinance. The 2006 amendment currently forces those with nonconforming lots who want to build additions to […]

We discover yet another galaxy in Edgar Allen Beem’s alternate universe thanks to his latest column. Anthony Kennedy a “conservative activist”? Not lately, dude. Those five “conservative activist” judges just did you and your fellow hater-libs a huge solid. Ed Rendell, Chellie Pingree, Donald Sussman and yes, the Chinese Central Government Inc., can now legally […]

Drove down to Massachusetts a couple of weeks ago to have lunch with our son. Bobby came in from Chicago to see his girlfriend. Not us, his blood, the people who gave him life. Oh, no. The GF, and her family. Yeah. He’ll stay with them, no problem. Because that’s where … she … is. […]

Have you noticed how our local liberal, Edgar Allen Beem, always denigrates those of opposite political views with the most vicious personal characterizations? Michele Bachman becomes the “Mad-woman of Minnesota,” Cain becomes “Herman the Horny,” “Newt the Transformer” and Ron Paul has “holes in his head.” And he goes on to say “These mutant politicians […]

In recent months I have spent a great deal of time at Maine Medical Center and Brentwood Rehabilitation and Nursing Center, not to mention the offices of primary care physicians and various specialists, as we do our best to stay on top of my elderly parents’ various health issues. This immersion in the local health-care […]

I was surprised by U.S. Sen. Olympia Snowe’s announcement she would not seek re-election. I heard the rumor last year that she might not seek a fourth term. But when she declared, I figured she was all in, and I was with her. I made a modest contribution and attended a fundraiser in Falmouth where […]

The Judiciary Committee this week is working on LD 1805, a proposal to create a new exception in Maine’s Freedom of Access Act to permit the governor – the current and all future governors – to withhold “working papers, reports and memoranda” from public scrutiny. It’s an exception that, if enacted, will effectively slam the door on […]

Last week, I sent an e-mail to Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell that read in part, “As a husband, as the father of three young women, as an American, and as a Christian, I loathe and despise what you are trying to do – prevent abortion by letting the state rape Virginia women.” I’m guessing McDonnell […]

A few weeks ago I attended a conference of economic development types in San Antonio, Texas. Hundreds of leaders of organizations from across the country dedicated to job creation, business retention and investment attraction gathered to discuss what works and what doesn’t in the highly competitive world of economic development. You can imagine that, coming […]

I’m pretty sure the gentleman’s name was pronounced “hay-zeus” and not “gee-zus,” but as my daughter took her Home Depot receipt out of her wallet to show me how much she’d spent on art project supplies, and noted aloud (and with a subtle blend of dry sarcasm and delight) that, indeed, the son of God […]