Archive for ‘Opinion’

  • Diamond: What is on the ballot

    By Bill Diamond State Senator Next Tuesday, in addition to voting for president, U.S. Senate, U.S. House of Representatives, State Senate, State Representative and various local offices, you will have the opportunity to weigh in on one referendum question and four bond issues. This week I’d like to give you a little more information on […]

  • Viewpoints: Honor in politics

    Have politics ever been honorable? Are there not many unsavory jokes about politicians that are shared between Americans – thanks to our freedom to joke openly? Is there not a long and twisted history of politics that contains corruption and smoke screens and mudslinging? Since the beginning of time whenever cavemen decided to opt for […]

  • Views from the Uppermost House: These words come hard

      By S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist For the past six years, this column has come easy to me. I just excuse myself every other Saturday evening and go into my office and bang it out. Takes about one cup of coffee. But this week, these words come hard. You see, my friend Sun Fei […]

  • My Irish Up: Ask Mike

    By Mike Corrigan News Columnist As you may well imagine, I field a lot of questions in the average day, such as, “How many questions does an expert such as yourself field in an average day?” and “Is that your face?” I always try to answer as honestly as I can, although I often refer […]

  • Small World: Business as usual or shameful corruption?

    By Henry Precht BN Columnist “They are all thieves.” That was the answer from an elderly gentleman sitting next to me on a Rome bus when I asked, “What do you think of Italian politics?” We have been spending a few weeks in Italy and I ask that question whenever I can. I start off […]

  • Bridgton News wins six MPA Better Newspaper Contest awards

    The Bridgton News captured six Maine Press Association’s 2012 Better Newspaper Contest awards. The awards were presented Saturday at the MPA annual conference held at the Hilton Garden Inn in Freeport. Winning entries in the Weekly 2 category (Maine’s larger weekly publications) were: Opinion Columnist: BN Columnist S. Peter Lewis won first place for his […]

  • My Irish Up: Bringing home the bacon

    By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist There is a specter abroad in the land, terrifying in its implications, ominous in its form, telling in what it says about us as a people. I speak, of course, of the Great Bacon Shortage of 2012. Wait, what’s that? This just in: the president has declared there is no […]

  • Oh, my aching ischial tuberosity

    By S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist I’ve never had a mountain bike, but I bought one last week after a friend told me I’d be an idiot if I didn’t. It was displayed outside his office, a rental bike that the adventure shop he worked for was retiring. It had been completely overhauled and practically […]

  • My Irish Up: Lying in wait for the debates

    By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist All the presidential debates need is more interesting questions. None of this old-fashioned “journalistic objectivity” makes much sense, now that all of us (well, not counting Grover Norquist) have finally made it to the 21st Century. Enough of Jim Lehrer. Let’s see real journalists, like Bill O’Reilly and Keith Olbermann, […]

  • Small World: Speak, teach memory

    By Henry Precht BN Columnist A few weeks back, The News published a photograph of the 1952 Bridgton High School graduating class. Unfortunately, there were no questions of the group designed to dredge up their memories. As one from about the same epoch, albeit some 800 miles south of Bridgton, l would like to offer […]