As a Franklin County Commissioner for 23 years, I am pleased that the Legislature’s Agriculture, Conservation, and Forestry Committee has unanimously approved reforms for the Land Use Regulation Commission (LURC). As the planning, zoning, and permitting agency for Maine’s 10.4 million acres of North Woods and Unorganized Territories, LURC is very important. As originally written, […]

Some people are ignoring the possibility of Iran’s nuclear threat, as expressed by our State Department, the UN Security Council, the European Union and the International Atomic Energy Agency. They discount the specter of Iran furnishing nuclear weapons to terrorist organizations, such as Hamas and Hezbollah. Since Iran currently supplies arms to these organizations, the […]

Barack Obama is trying to get the young, healthy population to buy medical insurance to off-set the costs of the uninsured. Most of the young, healthy population can’t afford to buy medical insurance on their own. The part-time jobs they have don’t offer any benefits, and they can’t stay on their parent(s)’ health care policies […]

Here we go again; another governor saving us taxpayers money? I recently saw a letter from the Department of Health and Human Services, stating a 45-day maximum limit on pain medication for anyone that has been on it for a year. It basically says you have 45 days from April 1 to get over it, […]

Thanks to Sheila Malone (letter, “Fluke tried to teach men about women’s health care,” March 27) for figuratively taking me to the wood shed about things Sandra Fluke and women’s health. No defense of Rush Limbaugh, he can take care of himself. I simply did a comparison of media treatment of a conservative radio host […]