No fare So, a guy gets a taxi ride to his destination and suddenly, he doesn’t have any dough to pay the fare. So the cabbie drives the dude to the police station where – what do you know? – the passenger discovers he has a little cash after all. Must have been hiding in […]

Sometimes the sadness is almost unbearable. Take the case of Adrianne Robert, a girl who sparkled like no other. I had the supreme privilege of working with Adrianne for many years at the paper and then she moved on, to Florida. If I had any complaints about her during her Florida years it was that […]

Hot spots indeed At a community police meeting on Wednesday, at least a half-dozen people complained about being solicited by prostitutes in downtown Lewiston. It’s a real scourge, apparently. Yet, I’m a guy who spends all his time downtown and I’ve yet to get one offer from a single hooker. Not that I’m hurt by […]

As a newspaper reporter, sort of, I frequently get asked: What was your more thrilling moment? I answer the question in great detail, giving a moment-by-moment account of that exciting time. At which point, the person who asked the question gets red in the face and starts to look very uncomfortable. Oh, you meant my […]

Your ad here OK, so there’s a debate raging over whether or not we should allow corporations to buy naming rights to an athletic field in Lewiston. As far as I’m concerned, this proposal doesn’t go far enough. Why stop at naming the field when there are so many other opportunities to advertise at local […]

The way I see it, there are two kinds of people: normal folks like me who can’t so much as blink properly until they’ve had a minimum of two cups of coffee to start the day. And you mutant freaks of nature who skip coffee in the morning in favor of something outlandish like sweet […]

Y2K 2.0 What, the Internet is still here? I thought that DNSChanger virus was supposed to wipe most of us right off the Web. Well, huh. Makes me kind of rueful about posting all those photos the day before it was to happen. Oh, well. Live and learn. I’m wearing a leather mask in most […]

You people know I’m not one to say “I told you so.” Unless I happened to be right about something, which happens every 17 years like clockwork. Remember that time I predicted you’d lose your hair? You see how that turned out, don’t you? But anyhoo, last week I predicted that with the Fourth of […]

Another day in paradise Sunday afternoon around 3 p.m. Two dozen motorcycles, each with EXTREMELY LOUD and quite-likely illegal pipes, go roaring up a quiet residential street in Lewiston. Sleeping babies twitch in their cribs and begin to wail. Old ladies clutch their chests and drop tea cups to the floor. A woman walking with […]

Good morning, layabouts. I don’t mean to pee on your fireworks, but have you noticed the date? It’s the Fourth of July, summer’s midlife crisis and what have you done with your summer? Have you been camping yet? Hiked to the top of Mount Washington? Taken the kids fishing? Do you even have prospects for […]