I should drag out the trash for pick-up. I should learn new tech tricks. I should Facetime with my kids and grandkids. I should contact frail folks in town. I should sign up for that online sugar detox class. I should spring clean and clutter-clear. I should answer those texts. I should call my sister. […]
Forecaster Opinion
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Letter: Beem’s bias prompts fact checking on ‘Trump virus’
After reading Edgar Allen Beem’s April 16 column, “Trump virus,” full of Beem’s usual vitriol and hatred for all things Trump, I felt compelled to respond. Here are the facts: Inspector General Michael Horowitz’s report on Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuse found “apparent errors or inadequately supported facts” in 29 FBI FISA applications: “at least […]
advertisement
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Letter: Greene is ‘perfect candidate’ for SoPo, Cape and Scarborough
Sari Greene is the perfect candidate for the Democratic nomination for Maine State Senate for District 29 of South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough. Her background, skills, values, experience and priorities are excellent for getting Maine back on its economic feet after the pandemic while continuing to promote a healthy environment. Sari has long-term professional […]
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Letter: Gideon will ‘think globally, act locally’
Like many of us, I’ve been social distancing while preparing my boat for another season on our beautiful – if threatened – waters of Casco Bay. While the pandemic predominates our thoughts and news cycles, it is not the only threat we face: climate change and the warming of our Casco Bay waters continue, bringing […]
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Letter: Balentine should re-examine his faith in Trump
Sometimes I wonder whether John Balentine isn’t just trolling us. The other week he wrote he trusted President Trump to defeat the COVID-19 pandemic. A few days later Trump recommended we all inject bleach. You’d think a regular opinion columnist might revisit that misplaced faith. Instead, Balentine plows full speed ahead, this week talking up […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Here’s Something: Pandemic exposing liberal lies, Part I
Mainers have heard their fair share of cockamamie stories, hair-brained schemes and far-fetched ideas, but never have so many silly notions been exposed for the outright lies they are than during the coronavirus pandemic. There have been so many untruths advanced by the liberal mainstream media and the Democratic Party for so many decades now, […]
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
The Universal Notebook: Things have been worse
In case you didn’t know it, the 1918 Spanish flu was far worse than the coronavirus. As of this writing, some 76,000 Americans, including 62 people in Maine, have died of COVID-19. In 1918, 675,000 Americans died of the Spanish flu, including 5,000 Mainers. The Spanish flu was something of a misnomer for an influenza […]
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Mainewhile: Our response to the virus is what we make it
This is the week that Maine, and much of the rest of the nation, has begun to open up. Everyone out there seems to be wishing for, hoping for, a return to “some sort of normal,” even as we all realize “normal” is gone for good, and even as we realize we might not be […]
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Letter: Maine GOP has history of environmental protection rollbacks, too
Much appreciated was Edgar Allen Beem’s opinion piece (“Happy (belated) Earth Day!” April 29) offering the opportunity to reminisce on Earth Day and acknowledge the leadership of Maine’s environmental movement of the 60s and 70s by Republicans “Hoddy” Hildreth, Harry Richardson, Joe Sewall and Marion Fuller Brown. In this group might have been included Jon […]
Posted inForecaster Opinion
Over Easy: Notes from the underground in the time of coronavirus
March 17 – Three days I have been in voluntary quarantine here in my condo. I’m not complaining. I’m too old for the front lines and the sight of a needle makes me nauseous. But stay at home? Piece of cake, as they say. I miss my wife, who was visiting her mother when the […]