Bette Davis was diagnosed with cancer when she was 75 years old, and less than two weeks later, she suffered a stroke. In failing physical health, the cantankerous actress remarked that “old age is no place for sissies.” It’s also no place for cowards when it comes to financial health. Nearly two-thirds of Maine’s seniors […]

Journalists are not automatons. They are real people — some likable and some not — with friends and family who love them. They own pets, volunteer in schools, donate to charity and cling dearly to personal and professional value systems. It is those values that drive most media organizations to hire journalists who reflect company […]

Here’s a look at what several in our online community had to say about letters to the editor and stories in the news over the long holiday weekend. Regarding Tuesday’s story about the political career of outgoing Lewiston Mayor Larry Gilbert and his solid working relationship with current City Administrator Ed Barrett, Larry T. Doughty […]

There’s an old joke that editors like to tell about reporters, and it goes like this: Reporter sits through a long municipal meeting, returns to the office, announces that nothing happened and then writes a 40-inch story. Tomorrow we will see the national equivalent of that in Iowa. It’s the same story every four years. […]