In his column, “Gov. LePage? Maybe it won’t be so bad,” Edgar Allen Beem pretty well summed up the prevailing political thinking in Maine. He says that Republican Paul LePage “prescribes cutting taxes, reducing the size of state government and reducing government regulations as the keys to success,” but his opinion is that LePage doesn’t […]

I want to applaud Edgar Allen Been’s stance on all churches, synagogues, mosques, etc., being open to all of God’s children, no matter what their sexual orientation. It is not too hard to imagine what Jesus’ response would be to those seeking to follow his teachings. I think that it would be compassion and tolerance, […]

I cannot sit idly by and allow your columnist Edgar A. Beem to call my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ a (gasp!) “liberal” without at least saying something. Yes, Mr. Beem is correct in saying that there are many so-called progressive churches today. Actually, such churches have existed since the founding of Christianity. The Apostle […]

Researchers measure the full effect of maternal employment on early child development.

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson is considering a pardon for the outlaw, angering Garrett relatives.

CAPE ELIZABETH – From his vantage point, Rick Wheeler could see the development taking shape. An excavator and a dump truck worked amid swaths of goldenrod below him. Behind him, a rock drill was creating openings for the dynamite that would blast away the hill where he stood. “This is the new road,” said Wheeler, […]

The industrial land on Riverside Street is part of the Bayside revitalization.

It’s doubtful that anyone would accuse us of being boosters for the Midcoast Regional Redevelopment Authority. It’s been The Forecaster’s goal throughout the Brunswick Naval Air Station closing process to take an unbiased, watchdog approach toward MRRA and its efforts to redefine and redevelop the base. That approach was never more obvious than last year […]

Northeast Bancorp of Lewiston, the holding company for Maine-based Northeast Bank, today announced that the shareholders of Northeast approved the merger of FHB Formation LLC with and into Northeast. The number of shares of Northeast common stock voting to approve the merger agreement represented roughly 75 percent of the total number of shares outstanding and […]

What we have in the race for governor is the most liberal Democrat, the most conservative Republican, a Democrat-turned-Independent positioning himself in the moderate middle, and a couple of guys wasting their own and other people’s money tilting at windmills. Given the mood in the state and the country, I’m sorry to say I think […]