I’m writing to support a plan creating a town center in the soon-to-be-vacated Lunt and Plummer-Motz schools in Falmouth. Often taxpayers can be scared away from town improvements because of potentially bigger tax bills, but residents need more time to know all of the funding options available for this project. Frugal use of town resources […]

Please join me in supporting Dick Woodbury for state Senate. Dick is a thoughtful listener. He has even-keeled judgment. As chairman of the Falmouth School Board, what most impressed me about Dick was how attentively he listened to all sides of the consolidation discussion, made each person feel that their opinions mattered and were valued, did […]

We are fortunate to have the opportunity to support Councilor Frank Governali for Town Council. Frank has an extensive background in finance and a proven record of actively and successfully supporting Cape Elizabeth in a variety of public and private matters. Among other things, he served, or is now serving, as a member of the […]

I write in response to the Rev. Frank C. Strasburger’s letter on the legislative race in District 66. Strasburger is badly mistaken in saying that Fred Horch seems not to be very much interested in alternative forms of energy. I have conversed with Fred often in the past several years about his deep commitment to […]

As an independent voter, I will focus on choosing the best candidates across all parties this November. Maine is at a crossroads, and now, more than ever, we need strong, thoughtful, and competent leaders in Augusta. That is why I am voting for Mary Nelson for state representative for District 112. Mary has been a […]

Please join me in voting for Kerry Corthell and Iver Carlsen for Scarborough Town Council. In 2008 their opponents all voted to prohibit the Conservation Commission from commenting on plans for development in Scarborough, as the Commission had done for over 10 years. This was done to punish members of the Conservation Commission who made […]

Confident that he will continue to serve our community judiciously, collaboratively and passionately, I eagerly support Councilor Frank Governali’s candidacy for Cape Elizabeth Town Council. At a time when we continue to face fiscal difficulties, Frank will be able to provide invaluable insight as to how to best preserve our community’s excellent school system and […]

Are you a vegetarian? Neither am I, but we probably should be, both for the good of our bodies and of our souls. In a recent newspaper column entitled “How Will the Future Judge Us?,” Princeton University philosophy professor Kwame Anthony Appiah prophesizes that posterity will look back at our penal system, our segregation of […]

OK, confession time. I felt scared as I prepared to address the Portland Regional Chamber for the first time at last month’s “Eggs & Issues” program. This wasn’t stage fright. I’ve done plenty of public speaking. But I’d never used my position as a school leader to ask for money for a worthy cause – […]