Sustainability is a collective effort, a journey we’re all on together in our community, state, nation and world. It’s about making life better and safer for everyone, now and far into the future. So, what are the priorities for sharing knowledge and having conversations about sustainable living? Every reader of this column may have different […]

At 2 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 14, Curt Dale Clark, artistic director at Maine State Music Theatre, got word that he had to play the part of the producer Don Kirchner in “Beautiful: the Carole King Musical” at MSMT that very night. He went to a rehearsal at 3:30 p.m., hosted the MSMT concert at […]

Donald Trump’s campaign is in a fierce tailspin as his failed attacks on Kamala Harris haven’t been able to slow down her growing popularity. “It’s very clear the former president is unraveling. He’s having a complete meltdown,” Ashley Etienne, a former Joe Biden staffer and political advisor, said during a recent segment on Anderson Cooper’s […]

Thank goodness the Democrat Party’s magic act in Chicago is finally over. For four days we’ve had to watch the liberal media drool over Kamala Harris and her unimpressive VP choice, Tim Walz, like they were the greatest team of presidential candidates since JFK picked LBJ in 1960. We’ve had to listen to a parade […]

My bachelor Uncle Vernon refused to make out a last will and testament. Twenty-one years ago, he passed away unexpectedly. That left his beloved (but decrepit) English Shepherd dog Fred in a pickle. Luckily, my mother volunteered to adopt Fred and care for him in his final years. Things haven’t always worked out that smoothly […]

Tim Walz is the kind of guy Democrats have long needed on the national ticket. Fairly or not, Dems have long been perceived as coastal elitists who can’t emotionally connect with flyover country. But here’s this two-fisted pep-talking plain-speaking duck-hunting neighbor-helping school-teaching pigskin-loving flannel-wearing hunk of homespun Americana, and it’s no wonder the delegates went […]

Promises, promises. Presidential candidates make them. Voters complain that they don’t keep them. Promises reveal a candidate’s political views, but often they cannot be kept. Keeping them most likely depends on the president’s party winning majorities in both the U.S. House and Senate. This year, the presidential election takes place alongside races for all 435 […]

Why do some politicians and bureaucrats constantly forget that when governments meddle in our mostly free market that bad things happen? Vice President Kamala Harris gave what was supposed to be her biggest speech yet last week, but even some of her supporters say she blew it by promoting price controls over food to “fix” […]