Archive for November, 2011
I don’t root for Duke University.
If there is one thing that needs to be metaphorically loud and clear in the beginning of this column, it is that I always have and always will root for the …
Week 11 is the last week of the byes, and it’s a tough one.
The Texans, Saints, Colts and Steelers all have the day off, leaving fantasy owners without some of their studs. To increase the difficulty …
PORTLAND — Saying the University of Maine System faculty union and administration are miles apart in contract negotiations, a group of educators and students took dissent directly to the system board of trustees on Sunday afternoon.
The …
Lists can be ominous things — especially those issued by the more powerful institutions in the land.
The Environmental Protection Agency, for instance, compiles a grandiose list of facilities violating environment standards numerous times throughout the year. …
You are what you eat.
This renowned adage has branded itself into the minds of individuals across the globe. We’ve all heard it. Your mother said it, her mother said it and now virtually the entire medical …
Maine state Rep. Jon Hinck, D-Portland, announced his candidacy for United States Senate at the University of Maine on Saturday.
Hinck, who has been rumored since the summer to be considering a run against Sen. Olympia Snowe, …
I like to think of Facebook as my own personal focus group.
Since I’ve happily accepted friend requests from most of my mother’s friends, I can poll virtually the entire Kennebunk High School Class of 1977 any …
The Old Town mill is on an Environmental Protection Agency list of 464 facilities that violated environmental standards without agency discipline.
Three Maine firms made the list: Red Shield Acquisition LLC, which operates the Old Town Fuel …
To say “The National Acrobats of the People’s Republic of China” is a mouthful, and the show they put on is just as complex.
The group was established by the Chinese government, so to be a part …
A dastardly dilemma has plagued my person and my pages for sometime now.
There’s a seep in my soul that slithers from within me whenever it comes to words. I feel as though I cannot control this …
