Legislators gathered this week to try and link the LePage plan to pay off Maine’s hospital debt with Medicaid (MaineCare) expansion. The plan is to expand the program to an additional 70,000 Mainers. The current number of people on the … Continue reading
The US has an interesting intercontinental range missile defense program, at least for SOME of the country. Since North Korea has been upgrading its nuclear capability and saber rattling, there have been furious discussions down in DC about increasing the … Continue reading
Yes, the power of the press as been blunted again, but not at the point of a bayonet. Since everyone seems to be smug with themselves today, I figured a quick summation of the lessons taught to the tune of … Continue reading
A simple glance at the calendar tells the story. Tomorrow is the first day of February. If you are a single guy, or a married guy, or a dating guy, or a just messing around kind of guy, this is … Continue reading
Maine was atwitter yesterday with release of the latest polling results from Public Policy Polling on a possibility of a potential run by Eliot Cutler in the 2014 Gubernatorial Race. Of course, everyone started to pick apart the data, cite … Continue reading
The Mice once called a meeting to decide on a plan to free themselves of their enemy, the Cat. At least they wished to find some way of knowing when she was coming, so they might have time to run … Continue reading
So here I sit, at 11:30 on Friday night in Portland City Hall. The lines are growing, the intensity of the crowd has picked up a bit, the anxious agitation growing minute by minute as couples wait patiently for the … Continue reading
For those souls considering the potential for Mayan Mayhem on Friday, there was a brief peepshow of the same on the streets of Portland Thursday morning. A 20 inch water line burst, causing a possible flood of bacteria into the … Continue reading
Normally, I do a lot of political blogging, but every once in a while a story comes along that defines an age. In this national era of impatience over just about everything, I stumbled on one of those stories last … Continue reading
The continuing fundraiser for Maine’s Center for Grieving Children at WCYY hit another peak today when Portland Mayor Michael Brennan stopped by the studio to award Mark Curdo the “key to the city.” This year, the fundraiser has garnished over … Continue reading
