Bert Kendall’s July 8 letter of admiration regarding the Maine Military Museum in South Portland is spot-on and a very impressive visit indeed. Adding to that fitting compliment, I would also offer that the Cole Land Transportation Museum in Bangor has an extraordinary military section (and several very special military monuments outside) in addition to […]

Thank you for your coverage of the complicated issue of federal funding for public broadcasting (“Maine Public could lose $5 million through proposed federal clawback”) . The U.S. Senate is expected to act on the Rescission Bill this week. As chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Sen. Susan Collins plays an extremely important role in […]

The recent striper tourney postponement in Harpswell due to lack to fish is a sad state of affairs, but the reasons often blamed (rainy spring, colder water temps) for lack of stripers are incorrect. Virtually all the stripers we catch in Maine migrate here every spring and return in the fall to the Hudson River […]

If anyone had any doubts concerning the future of our culture, let me assure them that that there is no chance for optimism. When our media fixated on the likes of Donald Trump and Sean “Diddy” Combs, the die was cast. We are in serious decline and there is no way back. We must tend […]

And crown thy good with brotherhood? As our country descends into autocracy, how is this different from Germany in 1933? The atrocities are delivered in a slightly different order, but the similarities are apparent. For example, we are being “cleansed,” ostensibly to benefit the country, to rid us of waste, fraud and abuse. Most of […]

No, Sen. Susan Collins doesn’t get applauded for simply voting in her constitutents’ best interests. That’s her job. And, once again, it appears she cast a “No” vote when the bill’s passage was assured. Sen. Collins could have spent the last several months lobbying her Republican colleagues about the immorality of this bill and what […]

With all of the government talk of big numbers regarding spending and deficits, it is helpful to have a perspective on these numbers. If we viewed these numbers as seconds: 1 million seconds is about 11.5 days, while 1 billion seconds is about 31 years and eight months. One trillion seconds is equal to approximately […]