After reading last week’s Forum by Jeffrey Messer, I would like to give the voters of Scarborough the correct information regarding the proposed Wentworth Intermediate School replacement project. As a practicing architectural designer for 13 years, I understand all aspects of schematic design and planning a new facility of this size. I routinely work with […]

I had the great fortune to be one of the almost 300 people to attend the dedication ceremony of Falmouth’s new elementary school. It was a perfect day to officially open the doors and welcome our community inside to share in what we all built together. Our school is an achievement in it’s design, construction […]

This November’s ballot will include a question to repeal LD 1376, the law that ends Election Day voter registration, so municipal clerks may focus their energy on the election and also afford them adequate time to verify applicants’ qualifications. In addition, it requires registrars to accept registrations on any day that the clerk’s office is […]

Edgar Allen Beem attributes our “economic hole” to Republican “deficit spending, needless wars” and corporate tax breaks. But since January 2009, the national debt and unemployment rate tripled, and the budget deficit quadrupled, via various bailouts, an unwanted health care act, another needless war, and other stunningly inept fiscal policies, all overlooked by Beem. This […]

In the recent story by Randy Billings about the candidates for Portland mayor he misses the most important detail about the new mayor’s “power” of vetoing the city budget. That is not that it can be overturned by six city councilors, but that it first takes seven councilors to pass the budget. If it requires […]

If you’re the parent of a student who rides public school buses in greater Portland and you haven’t given a second thought to who is driving your child to and from school, an investigation by Randy Billings in The Forecaster this week should give you plenty to think about. Billings found that not only do […]

Can you believe that the Maine Legislature is seriously considering cutting the state’s top income tax rate from 7.95 percent to 4 percent, a move that could cause a loss of $500 million in revenue on top of the $400 million in revenue lost to earlier tax cuts? You’d think the state was running a […]

As one gets closer and closer to labor and delivery, there is a phenomenon that occurs – widely known as “nesting.” I remember this fondly from when I was pregnant with my first child, the lovely Ophelia. She was due on Dec. 23. A holiday baby. On Jan. 3, she had yet to vacate my […]

SCARBOROUGH — Baseball Hall of Famer Yogi Berra once said “It’s like deja vu all over again.” This quote is very applicable to the latest proposed referendum question for the Wentworth Intermediate School. Five years ago a $38.3 million ballot question was overwhelmingly rejected by the voters. The $39.1 million proposal on the November ballot […]

I was appalled to learn that Bath Iron Works just laid off around 25 percent of it’s engineering staff, almost entirely consisting of their youngest, most promising employees. With BIW struggling, considering their decision to bid for contracts on Coast Guard cutter ships in between destroyer contracts and their need for massive layoffs, this was […]