I did not intend to publish predictions for 2015. If you guess correctly, no one really cares. If you are wrong, it merely provides fodder for those who disagree with you to question your intelligence. These are the joys of online discourse today. All of that said, I was discussing the electoral results with a […]
Cynthia: Why isn’t America celebrating Boxing Day today, Mike? In other countries where the gap between the rich and everyone else is huge, they at least give stuff away the day after Christmas in boxes. Pew Research Center reports the largest wealth gap between upper-income and middle-income families in the U.S.on record. And it’s no […]
Mike: Cynthia, we have “humbug” reports from Orono and the mayor of Portland asking for more money for USM. Eliot wanted to merge the university system with the community colleges, while Mike wanted everyone to go to school for free for a year. How should Augusta approach higher ed? They could probably just appoint Jack […]
Cynthia: Mike, a Republican-led committee of legislators in Augusta solved the Senate District 25 mystery this week, and a committee led by Democrats in Washington uncovered torture committed by the CIA. Is committee work back in fashion? Mike: Committee work is rarely fashionable, mostly bureaucratic, and oftentimes boring. Yet, as we saw in Augusta on […]
Mike: Cynthia, to quote every crooner: baby, it’s cold outside. How do we keep the temperature up in our homes while keeping prices down? With talk of Keystone, the sale of Angus’ windmills and electricity price sticker shock, which way is up with energy? Cynthia: The politics of energy make no sense. For example, the […]
