My children don’t have driver licenses for personal reasons and the Brunswick Explorer has been a godsend. It allows them the ability to get to appointments, shopping, jobs, even meet friends for lunch or dinner, all without having to ask for a ride or take a very expensive cab ride, which used to be the […]

Just a short note to say that Emily Guerin, the productive reporter for the Mid-Coast Forecaster, is a fine journalist. Her stories are well organized, lively and unbiased. Anecdotes she includes make for fun reading, as in, “Just after 3 p.m. Friday, Casey Brey’s feet floated 6 feet off the ground.” For the record, I […]

I am puzzled to learn that my activities to solicit signatures for the peoples veto of LD 1376, the law that eliminates same-day voter registration in Maine, makes me a “left-wing extremist,” according to the recent Forecaster Forum by Rep. Heather Sirocki, R-Scarborough. Just to let all of you those interested in returning to the […]

On a recent Saturday morning at Shaw’s, a few customers and staff were privileged to witness a heartwarming event. The cashier’s line was short, but taking a long time, prompting us to pay attention to what was holding it up. An elderly customer was confused and upset because her credit card was repeatedly denied, and […]

Sept. 11, 2001, arrived after a series of eerily beautiful, late-summer days filled with bright, clear, cloudless sunshine. For weeks, the only news had been of shark attacks and the disappearance of a congressional intern. There was a sense that we were at the end of history: that the great debates, such as the ones […]

Maine was due for a congressional redistricting in 2013, but thanks to a pair of Republican operatives in Cape Elizabeth, we are now being treated to a court-ordered redistricting that has revealed the ridiculous lengths to which the GOP will go to gain an advantage. William DeSena and Sandra Dunham, Republicans from Cape, filed a […]

I am writing in support of the peoples veto which will protect the voting rights for the people of Maine. We need to remember Election Day registration has worked in Maine for more than 40 years. There’s absolutely no reason to eliminate it. We need to pay attention when Maine’s town clerks association fought against […]

Despite conservatives’ claims to the contrary (after so many years), same-day voter registration has worked pretty well. It seems these extremists are devoting an extraordinary amount of time, effort, and money to kill this right and our democracy. David StrauchBrunswick

Los Angeles basically has summer all year round. It also has a tectonic map that looks like a shattered glass-topped coffee table, so earthquakes are what California has instead of weather. I lived through three big ones, dozens I could feel and hundreds I couldn’t. I thought I was done with all that until a […]

Edgar Allen Beem seems to get a lot of flak so I’d like to say that I enjoy reading his column (and I would bet all his naysayers do as well) and agree with every word he says. The gentleman who wrote to debate Beem on progressive taxation I believe misses the point: of course […]