The front page story in Wednesday’s newspaper described the state’s plan to ensure that the many thousands of snowmobilers operate safely on Maine trails this winter.
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As the year winds down and the bearded old coot toting the hourglass with the sand fast running out exits, stage left, for the new babe sporting diapers bearing a “2009” logo waiting in the …
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Bangor Daily News editorial cartoonist George Danby hit the nail squarely on the head in his cartoon in the Tuesday morning newspaper.
Danby’s sketch featured Joe Everyman seated in front of his …
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At a news conference this week, president-in-waiting Barack Obama heaped abundant praise on Hillary Clinton while introducing the New York senator as his nominee for secretary of state in the new …
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The confused bank customer writes a note to his bank. “Dear Sir: In view of current developments in the banking business, if one of my checks is returned marked ‘insufficient funds,’ does that …
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In my daily wandering over hill and dale under the foreboding sky of an Aroostook November, my alleged mind wanders along with me, pondering a variety of subjects in a manner that can never stand accused of being profound.
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That big sigh you heard on Wednesday morning was the American public expressing relief that the billion-dollar two-year presidential election campaign that cost President-elect Barack Obama’s …
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If we’ve learned anything from this marathon presidential election campaign that mercifully winds down on Tuesday, it is that presidential candidates Barack Obama and John McCain disagree as to …
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Oh, great. Dueling automated negative “robo calls.” Just what this never-ending Presidential Campaign From Hell needs, was my first thought as I answered the phone one otherwise fine day earlier this week. My second thought was that if someone would please just shoot me I should be much obliged.
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One week into my long-anticipated flirtation with satellite-serviced high-definition wide-screen television, my advice to those unfortunates who have yet to make the move is this: If you thought …
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Last weekend, when the government of China boasted how its astronauts had begun a long-awaited space mission that would feature the first space walk by Chinese astronauts, the report on the Web site …
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Old newspaper editors don’t fade away — they just keep on playing editor. Thus it is that I find myself doing mental edits of strange things I hear on television newscasts these days.
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As a highly trained observer, I long ago deduced that people who are prone to attach a sticker to the bumper of their motor vehicle can almost never stop at one.
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The Associated Press news story in Monday’s newspaper was every bit as bewildering to me upon reading it the second time as it was on the first go-around, and I suspect that other readers may have been puzzled as well.
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When the governor of Hawaii delivered her agonizingly slow-paced speech in support of Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin at the Republican national convention Wednesday evening, the delegates in the St. Paul convention hall literally cheered her every sentence.
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From time to time there are hints that civilization may have begun its endgame, the final stages of an orgy of conspicuous consumption that on occasion has made the excesses of ancient Rome seem trifling by comparison. One such clue was an Associated Press news story out of Tokyo that ran in the morning newspaper a while ago. "Bunch of special grapes sells for $910 in Japan," trumpeted the headline.
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