On this day of celebration from sea to shining sea, I am thinking about some of the phrases and anecdotes that we associate with past presidents. George Washington could not tell a lie. Abraham Lincoln asked us to be better angels. FDR said that the only thing we had to fear was fear itself. Harry […]

In “The debate is still out on alewife runs” (Sunday, June 24), columnist V. Paul Reynolds notes amazement at seeing a healthy run of alewives at Webber Pond. Hundreds — perhaps thousands of people took time this spring to make their way to rivers and streams to witness the power and mystery of alewife migrations. […]

As a senior and a veteran, I am gravely concerned about the massive tax breaks that were passed in Congress this year, and who will pay for them. Medicare was created in 1964 by Lyndon Johnson and since then it has been the target of potential cuts. Some have called Medicare socialism and Republican leaders […]

It should be obvious which way we should vote this November. In Washington, the bigoted divider in chief is a hypocrite who publicly opposes chain migration, yet his wife’s parents both arrived here via that route. In Augusta, a similar mean-spirited governor has obstructed citizen-backed referendums that would increase the minimum wage, expand medicaid and […]