This was my son Bobby’s first presidential election. The first time I voted for president, Richard Nixon soundly trounced the recently deceased George McGovern. By that I mean McGovern passed away recently, not shortly before running for president, although he could hardly have done worse i...
Now that the elections are over, it is my hope that our newly elected and re-elected state and federal representatives will waste no time in focusing on the issues of concern to older Mainers and their families. Issues such as financial and health security are of paramount importance to many of o...
Most people have enough common sense to reject the ideas that corporations are people, and that money is speech, through deductive reasoning. Yet these concepts have been codified into law by our Supreme Court in the oligarchical “Citizens United” ruling. Halsey Frank’s recent
Arrests 10/26 at 11:15 a.m. Stewart Richardson, 24, Mill Ridge Road, Cumberland, was arrested on Gray Road by Lt. John Kilbride on an outstanding warrant from another agency. 10/27 at 6:43 Calvin Wiggins, 46, of Portland, was arre...
YARMOUTH — Incumbent state Sen. Dick Woodbury, U-Yarmouth, held off Republican challenger Chris Tyll early Wednesday in Senate District 11 to win one of the most expensive races for the state Legislature. Woodbury defeated Tyll, 13,011 to 11,666, or 53 percent to 47 percent....
FALMOUTH — Rep. Mary Nelson, D-Falmouth, credited high voter turnout and support for local candidates for her re-election Tuesday in House District 112. Nelson, a two-term incumbent, defeated Republican John Logan Jones of Falmouth 3,231 to 2,622. “(Winning) feels v...
PORTLAND — Former Cumberland County Sheriff and incumbent Rep. Mark Dion, D-Portland, retained his House District 113 seat Tuesday night with a win over newcomer Jeff Langholtz, R-Portland. Dion credited his accessibility for his 2,661 to 1,414 victory over Langholtz in the dist...
FALMOUTH — The banner atop the No. 7 METRO bus from Portland to Falmouth reminded residents to vote on Tuesday. And they listened. Voters turned out in large numbers to support the bus, with 5,289 voting to maintain the service and 2,223 voting for its demise. &ldq...