Archive for ‘Opinion’

  • My Irish Up: What has Barack Obama done with my $8?

    By Mike Corrigan News Columnist While it’s true that Barack and I go back a long way, I have no idea why the president of the United States is so desperate to meet me for lunch. I guess I’m not worried if Michelle isn’t, but it’s a little hard to comprehend why a man as […]

  • Views from the Uppermost House: Two wing nuts and an I-beam

    By S. Peter Lewis BN Columnist My dad is 86 years old. To put that in perspective, if he was a fruit bat he’d be…well, an 86-year-old fruit bat. That’s a really old fruit bat. The point I’m not making very well here is that my dad doesn’t know that he’s 86. He looks in […]

  • My Irish Up: You didn’t build that

    By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist Had I only listened to mother! About what? you ask, not unreasonably. I don’t know exactly; I already told you I wasn’t listening. But, I’m sure it was important, whatever she was babbling about then, back when I was young (July of 1970) and still impressionable enough (July 1 to […]

  • Rep’s View: Missing facts and distortions are no surprise

    By Rep. Rich Cebra (R-Naples) House District 101 I read with no surprise at all, the columnn in last week’s Bridgton News titled, “Defending the Middle Class,” authored by Representative Seth Berry of Bowdoinham. In his response to my column in the previous week’s paper, he attempts to address my criticism of and warnings to […]

  • My Irish Up: Dateline, Center of the Universe

    By Mike Corrigan BN Columnist CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE — One of the most depressing things I discovered soon after I moved to Lewiston (motto: “America’s Greatest City”) was that it was America’s worst city. Everyone said so, even most of the people who lived here — and that includes the man, clearly a famous […]

  • Small World: A Modest Proposal for Politics

    By Henry Precht BN Columnist When Brunswick Superintendent of Schools Perzanoski quarreled recently with Governor Paul LePage over education policy, he suggested that the governor take a SAT test and make the results public. That remark was widely condemned as a personal insult. I think the educator was on to something. I think all candidates […]

  • Views from the Uppermost House: Last possible phone call

    By S. Peter Lewis News Columnist   These days the telephone has become as ubiquitous as hair on a cat, covering virtually every square inch of society in a matted tangle of communication lines where one thing is somehow magically connected to everything else. Thirty years ago, if you told someone that a day would […]

  • My Irish Up: Caring ads

    by Mike Corrigan News Columnist Rarely does a television ad these days offer anything but a negative appraisal of a particular candidate. And when the ads do offer a positive view, you really wish they wouldn’t: (Music swells: camera pulls out from the teeth of President Obama, who is grinning that cute little grin of […]

  • My Irish Up: Our man in Charlotte and Miami

      By Mike Corrigan News Columnist MIAMI/CHARLOTTE/WHATEVER — Do you know how platform planks are devised by America’s political parties? Me either, so I thought I would make something up — which will generate a report at least as factual as your average convention speech. To sum up: Since Democrats have no new good ideas […]

  • A new law for new drivers

    By State Senator Bill Diamond This last week, a new law went into effect that will change the rules considerably for newly-licensed drivers. I am proud to say that I was the sponsor of this bill, and I hope that it will greatly reduce the number of accidents, and along with that injuries and deaths, […]