What Melanie Sachs brings to the table is substantial. Her experience in social work and local government is deep. She builds relationships across political divides and enjoys crunching data to find solutions that serve the greater good. But I’m supporting her candidacy because of her heart and her character. Melanie goes beyond offering help. She […]
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Letter: Sachs will use her Freeport experience wisely in Augusta
As a longtime business owner in Freeport, Creative Cottages LLC, I want to express my support for Melanie Sachs in her bid for state representative. Melanie brings to the table a broad, people-centered perspective to business and, ultimately, the economy. Her many years of balancing the town budget with the needs of the community and […]
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Letter: Gideon is the better choice for Maine
Maine’s voters will have a choice this November between Sara Gideon and Susan Collins to represent our great state in the U.S. Senate. I will be voting for Sara Gideon and I hope you will, too. While Susan Collins has claimed to be a moderate, she has sided with the GOP’s far right agenda on […]
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Letter: Trump dropped the ball in war against COVID-19
Donald Trump considers himself a wartime president. Let us all be thankful that the war against COVID-19 is not a shooting war. If it were, we would be in worse shape than we are now. The commanders in the field would not have enough ammunition, just as our governors do not have enough testing supplies. […]
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The Universal Notebook: Play ball!
Among the things I miss most because of the pandemic is baseball. It’s June. I should be watching high school, college, minor league and major league baseball live and in person, but instead I am watching World Series reruns and the Korean Baseball Organization playing in empty ballparks. Baseball is my favorite sport. I wasn’t […]
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Letter: Me Too movement effective, but not every accusation true
It is obviously important to hear women’s voices on the issue of sexual harassment. I totally agree with Edgar Allen Beem’s piece, “Do we really have to believe all women?” (Forecaster, May 5, 2020) My answer is, No. Tara Reade accused Joe Biden of sexually assaulting her many years ago. My question to her would […]
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Here’s Something: It was the best, worst of weekends
Thank goodness the SpaceX Dragon capsule made it safely off the ground to successfully dock with the International Space Station last weekend. If not for that monumental achievement, the weekend would have been one of the most tragic and depressing in American history. Similar to the opening line of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale of Two […]
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Life Unwound: We all need scaffolding
When my grandchildren arrived, they began a fort-creating project from the stockpiles of forest debris. The 9-year-old twins, Walker and Taylor, started a teepee-ish design and dug deep for scaffolding: “We need a long bough to stand up for the roof.” Five-year-old Brooke balanced gray stones for decoration in tiny corners. Almost-8-year-old Lawson lugged huge […]
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The Universal Notebook: Conspiracies ‘R’ US
The appeal of conspiracy theories is that they allow frightened people to dismiss unpleasant realities and weak people to feel superior, as in they know the real story. Lately, the same tinfoil hat brigade that peddled the evil idea that the Newtown school massacre didn’t really happen has been pushing a couple of other malevolent […]
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Here’s Something: Pandemic worth writing poems about
We’re all having trouble coping with the health and economic ramifications of the coronavirus, but some are having more difficulty than others. Of course, there are the folks getting sick and dying. At last count in Maine there were about 75 people who have succumbed and about 1,900 who have contracted the disease. Then there […]