A farewell to my best friend,Tippie.

By Bob Gaydos
Make no mistake, fear and resentment are at the crux of much of the Republican campaign against Obama. But Republicans may have misread the future.

By Emily Theroux
The perspective of the entire Republican Party has been subsumed by a kind of mass denial of reality that relegates “facts” to the last millennium, the enlightened era before America’s own King George W. assumed the throne.

By Shawn Dell Joyce
Each year, homeowners apply an astonishing 90 million pounds of pesticides to their lawns and gardens, exposing themselves, their children and their pets to potential health hazards. Learn how to have safer lawns.

Is it summer, or global warming?

A moment in time as two people stroll along the shore at the Gulf of St Lawrence.

By Bob Gaydos
Facebook’s IPO laid an egg. So did JP Morgan Chase’s synthetic derivative. I can live with what happened with Facebook. I think the JP Morgan people should be drawn and quartered..

By Jean Webster
Small Town Memorial Day, East Boothbay, Maine, 2005

By Emily Theroux
Quote of the Decade, courtesy of Mitt Romney when asked about his critical remarks about the Rev. Jeremiah Wright: “I’m not familiar precisely with exactly what I said, but I stand by what I said, whatever it was.”

By Jeffrey Page
The judge said he wasn’t minimizing what Ravi did, and then proceeded to minimize it.