Respect the engineers’ recommendation: Replace Brunswick-Topsham bridge You have a job to do, digging gravel, with a wheelbarrow. Do you give this to a 90-year-old person, or to a younger person? Why? You want to go to Oregon by car. Do you take the 20-year-old car? Where do you go in a 50-year-old airplane? We […]

With apologies to the poet E. E. Cummings: It’s Indictment Day, and the world is mud-luscious… Do you feel as jaunty as I do? Maybe not. Maybe you think that the first indictments against the Trump Organization, unsealed Thursday, are chump change. Maybe you think that the 15 felony counts – featuring alleged tax fraud, […]

In their zeal to mollify the leftist progressive wing of their party, President Biden and the Democratic leadership in Congress have seriously jeopardized what was intended to be the Administration’s signature accomplishment – a $4 trillion infrastructure program, the largest national public works project since the New Deal. Deep divisions between progressives, to whom bipartisanship […]

Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from a gambling syndicate. A Chicago Daily News reporter named Charley Owens was so distraught after star player “Shoeless” Joe Jackson admitted his guilt that he pleaded with the player, using the […]

This is the 5th in a series of pieces about Mere Brook, Brunswick’s urban stream. The town has a Maine DEP grant to plan for the brook’s improvement, with a goal of bringing it from “urban-impaired” status to Class B. Though the nearby Androscoggin is much larger and more famous, Mere Brook is truly of […]