Politics & Other Mistakes: Talking too much
There’s no such thing as free speech.
Just because we live in a country where we don’t have to worry about jack-booted thugs smashing down...
A View from the Hill: No better refuge than Casco Bay
With all the insidious racket in Washington last week, I needed to escape to the place where I find great solace without having to...
Miserable & Magical: Sometimes, you have to look away
In my first column for The Phoenix a few weeks ago I said my pieces would be a mix of sincere and snarky. But...
Politics & Other Mistakes: Is there a pill for that?
I hate Big Pharma.
You hate Big Pharma.
Everybody hates Big Pharma because it’s so easy to hate.
Pharmaceutical executives revel in raising prices on lifesaving medicines...
The Bridge Between: Tomorrow is going to be better
Can I tell you how excited I am to be writing again, especially for you, the readers of the
Portland Phoenix? Ever since I learned...
Politics & Other Mistakes: Going potty
Let’s list all the businesses that Portland has too many of.
(Note to the haters: Liberals do not count as a business.)
There are too many...
A View from the Hill: It’s the journalism, stupid
In early January, Masthead Maine announced that as of March 2 it would stop printing the Monday edition of several of its newspapers, including...
Politics & Other Mistakes: Paycheck blues
Gov. Janet Mills is leaving Maine to become governor of Iowa.
The reason: Iowa pays its chief executive almost twice as much as Maine.
Mills, who earns...
Another Viewpoint: We rank D.C.’s top 7 liars, so you don’t have to
kakistocracy (kak-uh-stok-ruh-see) noun. Government by the worst persons. — Dictionary.com
Government’s canniest liar, hands down, is Kellyanne Conway.
She has slink, snarf, snark, beans up her...
Miserable & Magical: It’s nice to have a friend
I’ve been living in the “adult world” for all of five years now, if you don’t count college (you shouldn’t), and I can attest...