A large part of my collection was destroyed earlier this year, but I still have visions of the world’s largest stockpile of Christmas music dancing in my head. I cherish a handful of songs that I “must” hear each yuletide season, but my reach inevitably exceeds my grasp as I try to “have it all.” […]

President-elect Donald Trump is about to resume a second term as president with such a slim GOP majority in the House of Representatives that it offers the party little if any room for error. Republicans deliriously reveling about their supposed “huge election mandate” may want to keep a lid on such unabashed glee. As final […]

There have been some interesting discussions about birthright citizenship, intensified by Donald Trump’s election a few weeks ago. A number of people who are angry at the chaos at the border have jumped right over the normal processes and procedures which would guarantee illegal border crossings are limited and hit right at one of the […]

The death of cursive handwriting reared its ugly head during the recent presidential election. Since 2010, according to Yahoo News, many states have dropped cursive writing from their curricula as they shifted to Common Core State Standards for English. As a result, many Gen Z Americans lack a distinctive cursive signature, which posed a problem […]

Jared Golden is trying to close a circle that’s as old as the Constitution. As one of Maine’s U.S. House members, he wants the House to take a new look at an old subject. He has proposed that the House of Representatives should consider adding members. During the drafting of the Constitution, the Framers debated […]

Gift ideas for a greener season

On Wednesday, Nov. 27, the Brunswick Fire Department responded to a residential fire at 11:30 p.m. Most home fire deaths occur between 11 p.m. and 7 a.m. This fire had the potential to cause significant fire loss and possible injuries if it had not been for the presence of working smoke detectors in the home […]

My mother loved words. She enjoyed writing letters and getting them. She was forever tossing off poems, most of them witty and nonsensical. She was delighted whenever Hallmark cards bought one of her pithy offerings. She loved playing Scrabble and doing crosswords. An avid reader, she made a practice of writing a short analysis of […]

The blogosphere is abuzz over President Joe Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter, with criticism ranging from regret to denunciation. There is much to criticize, considering Biden’s previous vows not to intervene in the case. But facts change. The prosecution, undertaken in about the same timeframe as Jack Smith’s legal pursuit of Donald Trump, was […]