Happily celebrating a daughter’s wedding in a lovely little village up in the White Mountains, I blessedly missed much of the rancorous congressional health-care debate. I got home Sunday evening just in time to see House Minority Leader John Boehner screaming and spewing “Hell, no you can’t!” all over the airways as Democrats passed the […]

Editor’s note: When The Forecaster launched Probing Politics last year, we stipulated that the column would be discontinued if Tony Payne became a candidate for re-election to the Falmouth Town Council. Because Tony has now declared his candidacy, this is his last column. We hope to present a suitable replacement in the near future.  Plunging […]

Two basketball seasons ago, I was given a group of sixth-grade girls no one wanted to coach. They were not considered good enough to make an “A” team, or they were too much of an unknown quantity to other coaches. They could have played pick-up games in the local rec program, but they wanted to be […]

The founders of this country, the authors of the Constitution, had a very healthy and justified skepticism about government and its penchant to intrude into its citizens’ private lives. The animating theme behind the Bill of Rights was to protect the individual rights of man against the intrusive, often destructive, powers of government. While we […]

I was dismayed by one of last week’s letters, which made disparaging remarks against the teachers of SAD 51 and claimed “seniors are being forced from their homes.” It appears that the author may not be aware of the many programs available to seniors in his town. According to town officials, it is neither Cumberland’s […]

Any time you want to see or hear about the problems and challenges the world is facing, you only need to turn on the news. It can be, at times, a bit overwhelming. I recently had an opportunity to listen to a group of students talk who have endured many of the worlds hardships. They […]

The Maine DOT has offered funding the Maine Street-McKeen Street intersection for good reason. If DOT feels it is dangerous and is paying for it, why is the town hesitating? Is it because Maine Street Station and the Bath Road intersection revision are getting more attention? Is it because of the tremendous new traffic that […]