Can anyone please explain to me the virtues of ethanol? I am admittedly ignorant about this subject, and my knowledge of ethanol comes mostly from what I’ve heard from others. As near as I can tell, ethanol seems to increase our dependency on foreign oil and undoubtedly increases food prices overall; not to mention, whether […]

Last month, Congress passed the Federal Transportation Act of 2012. The legislation was touted as a “jobs bill” because it includes funding for transportation infrastructure projects. The bill, however, cut funding for bicycle and pedestrian projects by 33 percent nationally, reversing years of progress on biking and walking policy. The Bicycle Coalition of Maine is […]

When talking about the proposed toll increases on the Maine Turnpike, the obvious solution seems crystal clear. All we have to do is charge everyone who uses the turnpike a toll, instead of just select areas paying for it all. A perfect example of this is the location of the first toll in York. The […]

Here’s a part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) that no one seems to be talking about: Effective Jan. 1, 2014, members of Congress and their staff will be offered health care plans only through the exchange or plans otherwise established by the bill (instead of the Federal Employees Health Benefits […]

The members of Sidney’s Board of Selectmen, after a fair review, have determined that they cannot support the budget proposal for RSU 18, which is currently in front of the voters. The budget, which was approved by the RSU 18 school board at its July 11 meeting, totals $32.6 million, an increase of $624,648, or […]

The proposed $33 million budget for RSU 18, defeated by voters on June 12, would have increased property taxes in four of the district’s five towns: Belgrade, China, Oakland and Sidney. The top two areas of increase in the budget are salaries and benefits. Taxpayers requested the RSU 18 board of directors to live within […]

Irresponsibility is destroying us. Our country is headed in the wrong direction with out-of-control spending and very little to show for it. Irresponsibility has squandered future generations, our children, by strapping them with trillions of dollars of debt, and there seems to be little concern about it. Gov. Paul LePage is working hard to keep […]

I would like to begin by saying how disappointed I am with the Democrat Party voters who chose Meaghan Maloney as their candidate. Apparently she won because she has been a Democrat all her voting years and not because she has prosecutorial experience. I worked with Alan Kelley for almost 10 years. I got to […]

The Arab News editorial, published in the July 16 issue of this newspaper, ignores history. During the Clinton administration, at Camp David, Israel offered the Palestinians 95 percent of their demands, including East Jerusalem. The offer was rejected. Then came the Oslo Accords, which fell by the wayside because they were violated by the Palestinians. […]

The left should lighten up on our governor. The recent articles written by Bill Nemitz and others are like vultures sitting on a power line, waiting impatiently to sweep down from their perches to devour our governor. Gov. Paul LePage has sporadically used certain words and phrases off the top of his head without full […]