Every town needs a Janet Jamison. Someone who will push, prod, provoke and just plain pester the good graces out of town officials. No one has to like these people. But we do need to respect their standing as involved citizens. Jamison is what you might call a proud political activist in Paris. When she […]

“Too big to fail” may apply to banks and car companies, but American voters eventually concluded that comprehensive health care reform was too big to pass. That’s why President Barack Obama should be thinking small when he presents his State of the Union address Wednesday. Perhaps the single biggest problem with the 2,000-page proposal that […]

“Too big to fail” may apply to banks and car companies, but American voters eventually concluded that comprehensive health care reform was too big to pass. That’s why President Barack Obama should be thinking small when he presents his State of the Union address Wednesday. Perhaps the single biggest problem with the 2,000-page proposal that […]

Newspapers still do the bulk of news reporting If we think news — the gathering and presenting of basic information — is important, somebody will have to pay for it. The importance of that was reinforced Tuesday by a study conducted by the Pew Center for Media Research that involved putting a one-week media microscope […]

Newspapers still do the bulk of news reporting If we think news — the gathering and presenting of basic information — is important, somebody will have to pay for it. The importance of that was reinforced Tuesday by a study conducted by the Pew Center for Media Research that involved putting a one-week media microscope […]

As a task force wraps up work in Augusta, three missing pieces of information call into question whether Maine is ready to move forward on a system to distribute medical marijuana. • First, we do not know how many people would qualify for, or even desire, medical marijuana. • Second, we have no idea how […]

As any pilot will tell you, an aircraft that exceeds its design speed will vibrate and shake before it disintegrates and crashes. That’s the warning President Barack Obama should take away from Tuesday’s election in Massachusetts, where a little-known Republican claimed the safest Democratic U.S. Senate seat in the country. State Sen. Scott Brown won […]

As any pilot will tell you, an aircraft that exceeds its design speed will vibrate and shake before it disintegrates and crashes. That’s the warning President Barack Obama should take away from Tuesday’s election in Massachusetts, where a little-known Republican claimed the safest Democratic U.S. Senate seat in the country. State Sen. Scott Brown won […]

What’s the big secret? Great Falls Recreation & Redevelopment LLC — the limited liability partnership that has proposed building a casino on the former Bates Mill No. 5 site in Lewiston — is not revealing its partners. It prefers, instead, for the partners to reveal themselves one at a time over a period of months. […]

What’s the big secret? Great Falls Recreation & Redevelopment LLC — the limited liability partnership that has proposed building a casino on the former Bates Mill No. 5 site in Lewiston — is not revealing its partners. It prefers, instead, for the partners to reveal themselves one at a time over a period of months. […]