Disregard the policy, the law school lecture language, the obfuscation and don’t be misled by the bureaucratic psychobabble. President Joe Biden’s executive order creation of a commission to study of the U. S. Supreme Court is about one thing – court packing, expanding the nine-member court by an as yet undetermined number whose only qualification […]

A child’s home should be where they feel safest. But unfortunately, for far too many, that is not the case. An unfortunate consequence of the COVID shutdowns, and remote learning, is that children who have unstable homes have spent the last year in constant turmoil, deprived of adequate contact with their peers, teachers, and other […]

While sitting on the beach at Anna Maria Island in Florida, I saw a father tossing a football with his two young sons. One son would go out for a long pass, and the other son would try to guard him. Good natured bantering came from all participants. The scene brought back memories of times […]

How are we going to pay for all this? In March, the monthly gap between federal spending and revenues was the third largest in U.S. history. Whether Donald Trump or Joe Biden is president, federal spending keeps climbed. But raising the money to pay for it has been lacking. Even worse, under Trump spending increased […]

In the April 9 letters to the editor (“Modern landfills a more environmentally-friendly solution”), a Casella employee wrote a few things that misrepresent the situation with their landfill at Juniper Ridge, and implicitly question the recent decision of the Town Council to shift its waste disposal to ecomaine. Before addressing the letter, it is worth […]

DMR’s pratfall leaves other questions in its wake

On a day featuring nearly five hours of prescribed fire to help maintain the Brunswick-Topsham Land Trust’s 14-acre portion of the sandplain grassland blueberry barren just south of Pleasant Hill Road, I only saw one of the 13 fire-tenders run once. That happened an hour-plus into the burn as the flame-line neared the woods on […]