This column first appeared in December 2010. In 2020, the World Food Program won the Nobel peace prize. Recently, I flew halfway across the country with former Senator George McGovern, traveling with the now 88-year old political veteran to his home state of South Dakota. When McGovern was the Democratic candidate for president in 1972, […]

Brunswick clerk, staff make voting easy I am writing to thank the Brunswick Town Clerk and staff and volunteers for the suburb job they are doing to make voting in the Nov. 3 election as easy as possible. We received our requested ballots by mail, filled them out, and I took the ballots down to […]

As a former investment banker who teaches political economy, I’m relatively conservative on economic issues. I believe in individual liberty, fiscal responsibility and competitive markets, sensibly governed. So I’m shocked at how irresponsible the Republican party has become. Tax cuts and deregulation may have made sense in the 1980s, but that philosophy has been taken […]

If you just watch the news and the ads – and the social media posts – you could be forgiven the impression that the American political system has gone, well, nuts. We have a president who realized in February that coronavirus was a huge threat, told the public the opposite, then in late September contracted […]

Vote Arford I am writing to encourage residents of House District 49 to elect Poppy Arford to the Maine state legislature.  Poppy has lived and raised her family in Brunswick for 35 years, and is devoted to our community. She will work tirelessly for the best interests of everyone if elected to serve in the […]