I would like to thank Mario Moretto and Emily Guerin for their investigative reporting on area municipalities breaking the laws governing the important right of people to information. Nor should there be any hourly fee for information that belongs to the citizens. Town workers are already well paid, with citizens’ tax dollars, to serve. The […]

Men’s Health magazine recently released its March issue, and in it, declared our own fabulous Portland, Maine, No. 2 on its list of “where the babes are” – an assessment of 100 cities across the country, apparently offering a helpful tool for single men wondering where they might have the best chance of finding love. […]

As the Republican Party stumbles along on a debate-strewn course toward nominating yet another spoiled rich kid who feels entitled to be president, we have all been treated to the GOP’s carnival sideshow of hopeless hopefuls: Michele the Madwoman of Minnesota, Herman the Horny Pizza Guy, Tricky Ricky Perry, Rick Sanitarium, and Newt the Transformer. […]

It is an absolute outrage that the Maine State GOP thinks that with only 83 percent of Maine’s votes for the 2012 Presidential Preference Poll, that they can discredit the potential votes of 7,000 members of their party, especially with only 194 votes between first and second place. It is even more of an outrage […]

I haven’t voted for a Republican in at least two decades, and that’s very unlikely to change this November. But that said, I feel compelled to comment how impressed I am with columnist Halsey Frank’s writing, and specifically with how well he expresses his ideas. It’s rare to see essays on politics that aren’t chock […]

The Save Our Neighborhoods Coalition in Freeport is not opposed to Seacoast United’s indoor soccer arena being built in a suitable part of town, but we do oppose changing the zoning of a rural residential neighborhood to accommodate the building in its midst. This huge building for a pay-for-play commercial enterprise should be built only […]

I just saw Edgar Allen Beem’s piece in The Forecaster (“The Universal Notebook: Just say no to growth”) and wanted to mention a bumper sticker, “Question Growth” I had printed years ago (thinking of sprawl and environmental consequences of endless economic growth). Bumper stickers aren’t much worn these days, but I just had another batch […]

Just picked up the Portland edition. I can’t tell you how totally disgusted I am seeing a picture of this so-called American burning the flag in Lincoln Park. Just where did these people get their brains, at the school of Numb-R-Us? Harry Brown states “(The flag) no longer stands for what it once did.” Hello […]

How refreshing to read a column in a local newspaper that speaks to the end of growth (“The Universal Notebook: Just say no to growth”). It is my belief that if the public were informed that we have natural resource limitations, that we can’t grow, and that simply “more jobs” is not the answer, we […]