DENIS THOET: Strong support shown for store selling food from local farms

Columnists

Published
July 22, 2011

DENIS THOET: Strong support shown for store selling food from local farms

Going forward... (I love that phrase. It's so much more expressive than "going backward," or "going nowhere"). It looks like local food is "going forward" as the wave of the future in my local area.
Published
July 21, 2011

ANTHONY RONZIO: State watchdog agency never was the problem; its keepers were

The state's watchdog, the Office of Program Evaluation and Governmental Accountability, was born in 2005 with a serious dental defect.
Published
July 20, 2011

GEORGE SMITH: Industrial sites, wind towers? Pah! Anglers go where the fish are

Anglers pay big bucks to catch big fish. While it's nice if the river or lake is in a beautiful remote setting and not crowded with other anglers, we go where the fish are.
Published
July 19, 2011

DAVID B. OFFER: It’s an editor’s job to know tactics reporters use to get their stories

I first visited London in 1961 when I was a 20-year-old Army private first class, stationed in Germany. Using "How to See England on $5 a Day" as my guide, I spent a week sightseeing. It was a great trip -- my first vacation as an adult without my parents setting the agenda -- and while I didn't manage to do it on $5 a day, I came close. That was important for a guy living on a private's salary.
Published
July 18, 2011

MAINE COMPASS: Republican tax plan will create jobs, benefit low-income families

Recently, Emily Cain of Orono, Democrat House leader said, "My caucus hates these tax cuts. It hates them. They hate these tax cuts. They hate them."

Published
July 17, 2011

RICHARD CONNOR: Murdoch responsible for employees’ actions

Furor over the news of the despicable phone-hacking incidents at Rupert Murdoch's News of the World in Great Britain is likely to carry over to suspicions by the public all over the world that journalists lie, cheat, take payoffs, make payoffs and slant news coverage in order to create headlines and sell newspapers.
Published
July 17, 2011

COMMENTARY: GOP should call Obama’s bluff

President Barack Obama is demanding a big long-term budget deal. He won't sign anything less, he warns, asking, "If not now, when?"
Published
July 17, 2011

THEODORA KALIKOW: Gardening, with planning, planting, a lot like running a college

Recently I was contemplating my garden -- actually I was crawling around in it, weeding, deadheading, picking up branches and doing miscellaneous chores.
Published
July 17, 2011

COMMENTARY: ‘Sloppy-side economics’ ignores Depression lessons

"I have seen the future, and it works," journalist Lincoln Steffens famously said of his 1919 visit to Bolshevik Russia. Guided by his economic faith, Steffens saw the future as he wanted it to be, not as it would be.
Published
July 16, 2011

MAINE COMPASS: Elected sunshine patriots look past debt crisis abyss

On a warm Fourth of July afternoon, thoughts bubbled up about the American way of life, the independence we usually take for granted, and the rarely considered costs of all those freedoms.