Archive for ‘Opinion’

  • Small World: A fun New Year’s resolution

    By Henry Precht BN Columnist By the time you read these words, you will most likely have already broken one or more resolutions for 2013. It’s not too late, however, to do a repair job. To that end, let me suggest a burden-free repair patch that will keep you going all year and leave you […]

  • Earth Notes: Lessons from the Third World

    By Frank Daggett It’s ironic that the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere is in some respects ahead of the richest, most technologically advanced nation on the planet. Last week in Haiti, I accompanied a team of 12 students and three faculty members, who rang in the New Year assisting in a medical clinic, laying […]

  • Small World: Helping the NRA to protect us

    By Henry Precht BN Columnist The NRA (Not Responsible for Anything) says it has a plan for addressing gun crimes in our schools. It is incumbent on all citizens to assist this organization — tangibly or with advice — as it is one of the real powers in our government. The plan calls for an […]

  • Lewis: I can hardly wait…

    By S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist I’m really good at procrastinating. It’s been something of a life goal of mine. I typically procrastinate for several hours during each of the first eight days of the week and then all day on the sixth Saturday of each month. But it isn’t random or unfruitful; rather, it’s […]

  • My Irish Up: Buy now!

    By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist If you remember the advice I gave you five or six years ago to invest in real estate because as a class it never goes down, you have a faulty memory. I never said that and neither did any of the other thousands of experts in real estate and money […]

  • Small World: Thinking about guns and gun controls

    By Henry Precht BN Columnist I hate to raise the subject of gun control knowing that there are probably some Mainers who will be offended, regarding as they do, gun ownership and use as beyond discussion. A constitutionally-protected right that is nobody’s business. The violence in Connecticut, however, calls in question that assumption.  The repeated […]

  • My Irish Up: Hiccups cure

    By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist Short of a plague of spiders in one’s underwear or a Congressional filibuster, about the worst thing that can befall a man who’s got to live through it is a fit of the hiccups, or hiccoughs, as the literate would have it. Why these things have to afflict good people […]

  • Earth Notes: Walkabouts

    By Jen Deraspe I write from Venice, a beach town in southern California. I sit in the sand with the gulls, sandpipers and pelicans nearby as the waves roll in steadily. Distant sailboats and fishing vessels dot the horizon. The human race seems so drawn to the sea, lured by its lulling sounds, salty, damp […]

  • Lewis: I love small towns

    By S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist I love small towns. I got a flat tire last two Tuesdays back at 6:10 in the morning. Felt an odd loud rumbling up in the front right. Thought little of it and continued on until the guttural grinding overpowered the radio, then pulled over. The tire was mashed […]

  • Precht: Coming home to roost

      By Henry Precht BN Columnist True, Mr. Romney lost the election so the 47% of the people “who are dependent upon government” might think they have nothing to worry about. If you are one of them, before you doze off you might pay attention to what they — Republicans and Democrats — are up […]