Controversial economist and self-styled politician Lyndon LaRouche was in Maine Tuesday, at least in spirit. In front of post offices throughout the state, including Lewiston, Lisbon and Brunswick, LaRouche followers set up signs depicting President Barack Obama sporting a Hitler-style mustache, and actively sought signatures on petitions to impeach the president. In Lewiston, the sight […]
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The ‘architect’ has good advice for Democrats
Before the next election, Democrats in Maine and Washington, D.C., could do worse than take a page from an oil-burner repairman from Farmington. Charlie Webster may know his way around a furnace, but he is also being praised as “the architect” behind the sweeping Republican Party in Maine last month. On Nov. 2, Republican candidates […]
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LifeLock may not be worth the price
More than 2,000 Maine consumers received a small check earlier this year, $10 each from a company called LifeLock. More than one million consumers nationwide also received checks to settle complaints against the company. While the amounts were small, the Federal Trade Commission allegations against the company were serious. LifeLock, the FTC said, had exaggerated […]
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Maine should avoid pointless legal challenge
There are now 20 states standing in line to challenge the constitutionality of the nation’s new health care law. Maine has nothing to gain by becoming the 21st. Republican Gov.-elect Paul LePage made no secret of his disdain for the federal health care plan early on. “I fear the federal program,” he told a group […]
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Now not the time to stall on nuke treaty
As things heat up again on the Korean peninsula, now is not the time to delay U.S. and Russian negotiations on an expanded nuclear weapons treaty known as the New START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty). Both countries have condemned the North Korean shelling of a South Korean island and, just last month, U.S. and Russian […]
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Let’s start our cutting with the cotton subsidies
Red state voters like to complain about excessive government spending … until the subject turns to farm subsidies. Then wheat farmers in the West, corn growers in the Midwest and cotton/sugar producers in the South start sounding like whining agri-liberals. National Public Radio provided a maddening example recently with a report on how U.S. taxpayers […]
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Paradee’s honesty and demeanor will be missed in Maine
Most Mainers became familiar with “Miles the Turnpike Moose” who, each Labor Day, thanked drivers at the York Toll Plaza for visiting Maine. Fewer Mainers may have known the man inside the moose suit, Dan Paradee, the longtime spokesman for the Maine Turnpike Authority. Paradee, the authority’s public relations manager for 15 years, died last […]
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Short takes on the week’s news
On Thanksgiving Day, an unnamed hunter saved the lives of three people in Paris. Heading out early to hunt, the man was driving past a house and noticed flames. A responsible person would have called for help. This good Samaritan did much more than that. He honked his horn, got out of his truck and […]
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Mosque may have outgrown Bartlett location
We hope Lewiston city staff can help Bartlett Street neighbors work out their escalating parking issues. In the end, however, the city may have to admit that this is not a good location for anything that draws a crowd, including a mosque. In a two-hour gripe session at Tuesday night’s council meeting, property owner and […]
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Giving thanks for the words of wise people
“He who receives a good turn should never forget it; he who does one should never remember it.” — Charron “Gratitude is the heart’s memory.” — French Proverb “At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of […]