Clinically speaking, depression is a diagnosis resulting from feeling very sad, losing interest in day-to-day activities, fatigue, feelings of worthlessness, loss of concentration and/or recurrent thoughts of death or suicide, among other things. If untreated, depression can destroy families, distance friends and ruin careers. And, when depression hits a child, their ability to recover depends […]
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Snowflakes of economic opportunity
Tired of the snow? This is Maine after all. Right? And, while it seems this season’s snowfall has been particularly disruptive, we’re not trapped by a historic amount of snowfall. Not even close. In fact, no place in Maine ranks among the top 10 snowiest cities in this country this year. The good folks of […]
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L-A Charter Commission: A vehicle to design a new future
How many people living in Auburn and Lewiston have thought, even for a moment, about the possibility that the Twin Cities may be consolidated, or that city services may be further consolidated to improve those services. How many have ever acted on that thought? Either in support or opposition? There is now an opportunity to […]
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Intimidating CDC officials to stay silent?
Looks like the Legislature’s Government Oversight Committee might have to exercise its little-implemented subpoena power after all. Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention officials have left it no choice. None of the CDC officials “invited” by the GOC to attend this Friday’s committee meeting, to answer questions about funding for Healthy Maine Partnerships, has […]
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Frank Glazer shows us 99 is only a number
What do Frank Sinatra, Edith Piaf, Billie Holiday, Orson Welles and Ingrid Bergman have in common with Frank Glazer, pianist and artist-in-residence at Bates College? They were all born in 1915 — 99 years ago. But only Glazer is still performing. Saturday night, in honor of his 99th birthday on Feb. 19, Glazer gave a […]
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ACA giving health care . . . and options
There was a young mother out there working 40 hours a week who wanted to work fewer hours so she could spend time with a child. Then there was a 62-year-old who had saved enough money to retire and wanted to. There was a person with a great idea who wanted to develop her own […]
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Our View: Cheers to the generosity of friends, strangers
Welcome home, Staff Sgt. Richard Lussier, and what a welcome it was. On Tuesday, Lussier was the surprise special guest at the 25th anniversary celebration of the Air Force Junior ROTC class at Lewiston High School. It was special because Lussier’s son, Caleb — a sophomore and ROTC cadet — didn’t know his father was […]
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Our View: Public needs accountability. Not the shaft
“In an unprecedented move by majority lawmakers Monday night, the Democratic members of the Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee voted ‘ought to pass’ on a $40 million budget proposal without a single Republican present.” So says the GOP. Democrats say they were forced to make this move to restore $40 million in revenue-sharing cuts that […]
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Giant blob? Who can resist such a story?
It’s really difficult for hardened newspaper reporters, like our own Mark LaFlamme, to ignore certain stories. Like those involving blobs. Or anything that happens in a subterranean urban cavern. Or bizarre things that happen to people while seated on toilets. And if a single story contains all of those items, and if it occurs in such […]
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Homelessness in the U.S. is a national disgrace
On Wednesday, Phil Allen, who is the veterans housing service manager for the Portland-based Preble Street Resource Center, discovered a man who had been living in his car for the past four months. The man wasn’t found in Portland. He was found in Oxford Hills as Allen and dozens of other social workers and housing […]