The spring that never was, at least that's the prediction as of late from the weather prophets. As we dream of warm spring air and fear it may never again appear through the snow drifts, the maple sugar industry is just wishing the sap would run. It’s awful hard to boil sap without any sap.

Have you ever heard of certificate of need? Neither had I, until a few years ago when I began to learn more about the health policy environment in Maine, and just how backward it has been.

Monday, I had the pleasure — and I say that with a fairly substantial amount of sarcasm — of attending the public hearing that was being held on five bills that seek, in a variety of ways, to deal with the 3 percent tax surcharge passed by referendum last fall.

After reading my last two articles, some may view my thoughts on this matter of the marriage license as a capitulation from my past stance on Traditional Marriage.

It’s time to get rid of annual vehicle inspection requirement Tired of being forced to have your car inspected every year? Do you think the only beneficiaries of Maine’s inspection program are car mechanics and government bureaucrats? We all know how it works.

I read with interest a recent opinion piece in the BDN authored by Sen.

Today I write of rites and rights.

Well, it finally happened.

I do remember my wedding day.

Most people missed it a couple weeks ago, but I didn’t.

If you’ve traced an ancestor to the Colonial era you may have run across the phrase “warning out.

Our fellow Americans want Washington to fix the serious problems which are hurting our families and their jobs, and they want it done now.

It is hard to know whether to express grief or anger at the impending collapse of our educational system.

Is there really a root that can cure 98 percent of all cancer cells in 48 hours? Not likely, but a member of the Maine Legislature thinks it’s true.

Recently Ben Shapiro, a conservative political commentator, was giving a talk at Ferris State University in Michigan when a questioner stood up in an attempt to undercut Shapiro’s authority to speak on the issues he was there to talk about.

As the oldest and most rural state in the nation, older Mainers and their families should be concerned with proposals taking shape in Washington to fundamentally change Medicare as we know it.

If nothing else, the presidency of Donald Trump is worth it for inspiring our friends on the left to be skeptical of executive power.

We have become such an “in-the-moment” society always searching for that singular rush, craving that fleeting buzz of pleasure.