Mainers are frugal and one thing we can agree on is a good deal that will save us money. Money is tight for many of us now and the price of electricity is increasing the burden on everyone. One way Maine can accomplish lower electricity prices in the future and meet the state’s clean energy […]

The Winter Olympics is an adrenaline rush as athletes fly down snow-covered ski slopes, luge tracks and over the ice at breakneck speeds and with grace. When the first Olympic Winter Games were held in Chamonix, France, in 1924, all 16 events took place outdoors. The athletes relied on natural snow for ski runs and […]

The rejection of logic and reason often has tragic consequences. Witch trials, genocides and unjustified military actions such as the Iraq war can at least partly be explained by the dismissal of fact in favor of a preconceived but illogical conclusion. Such was the case during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection that resulted in four […]

MSAD 75 chairperson fulfills promise to her constituency through her actions What is the most important attribute of any elected official besides upholding their oath? Trust. How do elected officials build trust with constituents? Make decisions that are aligned with their promises as a candidate and maintain their word even as the seas become rough […]

If the central argument for President Joe Biden’s election in 2020 was his competence and decades of experience in Washington, three numbers in a new nationwide Quinnipiac University poll are a warning shot for the White House and Democrats as they look to hold their majorities in the U.S. House and Senate. Here they are: […]

We who abhor gun violence and loathe gun merchants have been dreaming of the day when a few aggrieved parties pull off a miracle and gain a small measure of justice. So it was sweet this week to learn that nine families devastated by the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre of 2012 had extracted a […]