I have a shadow son — a shadow son I didn’t give birth to, a shadow son who believed I was his biological mother for over a decade. I first became aware of him 14 years ago, when a private investigator called. I had no idea what a detective would want from me — perhaps […]
2018
Posted inbPlus, sj-web
In verse: Maine places and people
Produced by Dennis Camire This week’s poem is by Susann Pelletier of Lewiston. For my Grandmother, Marie-Anne Maillet By Susann Pelletier Memere, If you were alive This morning I would bring you (In your cool kitchen) A bowl Of red raspberries. You would put down Your book and say, “Qu’elles sont belles!” (“How […]
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Character counts, but so do results
I do not make it a practice to comment on the work of fellow columnists, though occasionally some care to comment on mine, which is fine. I am happy to help them make a living. An exception will be made here because of New York Times “conservative” columnist, Bret Stephens. In an end-of-year column titled […]
Posted inObituaries, sj-web
Muriel E. Logan
SCARBOROUGH — Muriel E. Logan, 92, formerly of Buxton, passed away late in the evening hours Thursday, Jan. 4. She was born Nov. 11, 1925, a daughter of Milford and Elizabeth Sarah (Taillon) Mutlow. Muriel grew up in Attleboro, Mass., and was a graduate of Attleboro High School. After graduation, she attended beauty school in Boston, […]
Posted inDear Abby, sj-web
Find another activity to include friend
DEAR ABBY: I play cards with a group of men I have known for more than 20 years. We switch partners after six hands so everyone partners with everyone. One member of the group has now become unable to remember the rules and constantly asks how he should respond to his partner’s bid. He also […]
Posted inOp-Eds, sj-web
We must get state and federal spending under control
We are fortunate that the economies statewide and nationally are growing at a very strong rate. However, both the state of Maine and the federal government are faced with the same problem as we begin the New Year, and that is how we control spending. The state must come to grips on how to pay […]
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Riddle me this
When Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds,” he seemed to be saying inconsistency isn’t always a problem. Still inconsistency sometimes puzzles me. The most conservative Christians, for example. Seventy percent of white evangelicals in 1992, when Bill Clinton ran for president, said a person’s moral character was important […]
Posted inLetters, sj-web
Protect, support solar energy
Thanks to Rep. Russell Black and Sen. Tom Saviello for working hard on and supporting good solar energy legislation last summer. In January, I hope they will continue their efforts to support solar energy for Mainers by supporting LD 1686. The anti-consumer and anti-environment PUC solar energy “gross metering” rules are designed to financially punish […]
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Try for real immigration law reform
The U.S. Congress has kicked the federal budget “down the road” once again, extending a Dec. 22, 2017, deadline into the New Year’s date of Jan. 19. Making that deadline will likely be another “Perils of Pauline” spectacle, with many contentious issues requiring resolution, all with the expected threats of “shutting down the government.” One […]
Posted inMark LaFlamme, sj-web
Talk of the town: Chris Matthews said something weird
It happened on New Year’s Eve A nice and possibly deranged fellow approached me at Shaw’s on the big night, heartily shook my hand and said, “Put me in the paper, won’t you? Report that Chris Matthews said something weird.” Congratulations, Chris Matthews. That’s a pretty weird thing to say. I usually only experience that […]