It is time to send an experienced businessman to Augusta. We need to elect someone who has a track record for creating jobs, managing and meeting a weekly payroll, and ensuring that his customers are always satisfied. That person is Jason Harris. Recently, Jason undertook a major environmental initiative where he returned significant amounts of […]

A mailer promoting the candidacy of Anne Graham in House District 109 raised a question in my mind as to its accuracy. One statement that has me questioning her accuracy is the mention that she has been active with the American Legion. As commander of the American Legion Anderson-Mayberry Post No. 91 in Yarmouth for […]

Mark Richard, candidate for House District 112, has a clear vision for Maine. Mark grew up here, raised his children here, went to school here, and chose to stay in Maine. His mission and vision is to make our home state a place of prosperity. A place our children will be able to raise their […]

The South Portland City Council wants all of its citizens to vote yes on the high school renovation. They want us to do for them, but they do not want to do for us. Two examples: The public was allowed to speak about the closing of Gorham Road Extension, and everyone that spoke was against […]

In 1950 the Republicans were the minority party in Congress, as they are today. On June 1 of that year Sen. Margaret Chase Smith made her “Declaration of Conscience” speech. She said, “The Democratic Party should be replaced. Yet to displace it with a Republican regime embracing a philosophy that lacks political integrity and intellectual […]

I read the article about the new curbs on Birchwood Avenue in Yarmouth. It was good to see, but unfortunately it missed mentioning a very important point. With the high curbs there’s an inability to pull over to the side of the road and/or for visitors to park alongside the road, not to mention a […]

For the past number of years residents surrounding Forest Lake in Cumberland have been complaining about the trucking noise from the Maine Turnpike and the adjacent service area. No one at any level of our state government lifted a finger to help alleviate or even address the problem. It was then brought to the attention […]

Mark Richard has such a positive outlook on life that I know it’s hard for him to see or speak the negative. I can only imagine the challenge Mark feels as he answers the call of our state. It’s a negative fact that our state finds itself in a bit of a mess and I […]

Over the past two decades Maine voters have overwhelmingly supported Land for Maine’s Future bonds which have helped protect 26 sites in Cumberland and York counties alone. Local projects include trails along the Presumpscot River in Portland, woodlands in Falmouth, two seabird nesting islands in Casco Bay, two active farms in Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough, […]

In the race for the 1st Congressional District seat, the contrast between incumbent U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree and challenger Dean Scontras could hardly be starker. Whatever the voters were expecting, Chellie Pingree has turned out to be one of the most liberal members of Congress. Pingree shares with Barack Obama the conviction that government can […]