Patiently awaiting the Golden Years

By Randall Poulton

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• Why you should vote for Susan

  By Randall Poulton - Oct 01
  It looks like Susan Collins is in a tight race, although I don't trust political polls. I find the Collins polling numbers particularly odd, ...
  

• To connect or not to connect?

  By Randall Poulton - Sep 03
  To connect or not to connect, that is the question. Is it nobler to burn fossil fuels, content in the belief that we have saved the great North ...
  

• Analyzing the numbers

  By Randall Poulton - Aug 06
  For this week's column, I am going to dig into some of the numbers that define current events and “do the math.” That it is left to me to do this ...
  

• Time to vote

  By Randall Poulton - Jul 09
  A couple of weeks ago, I applied, via mail, for my absentee ballot. Now I have it in hand and it is time to vote. On top of the political and ...
  

• Mills stays mum on corona deaths

  By Randall Poulton - Jun 11
  On Tuesday June 2, the CDC reported five Mainers died of COVID 19. Holy smokes, that seems like a lot! What is going on? A new outbreak? Who were ...
  

• The strange case of Tara Reade

  By Randall Poulton - May 14
  Intertwined between the impeachment of Donald Trump and the coronavirus pandemic is a “bombshell” story that, until very recently, had gotten a ...
  

• Coronavirus, take three

  By Randall Poulton - Apr 16
  This is the third column I have written on the subject of the coronavirus. No, you did not somehow miss the first two; they were not published. In ...
  

• It doesn’t get better

  By Randall Poulton - Mar 19
  Twenty or so Mainers have died while serving our country in Afghanistan. In my opinion, they are all heroes. Whether the United States military ...
  

• Common Core is no more

  By Randall Poulton - Feb 27
  While doing research for another project, I came across an editorial in the St. Nicholas magazine that predicted there would be trouble if the ...
  

• Who is Mayor Pete?

  By Randall Poulton - Feb 13
  In yet another example of why political polls should be ignored, underdog Pete Buttigieg more or less won the Iowa caucus. Frontrunner Joe Biden ...
  

• Trump: The right choice?

  By Randall Poulton - Sep 17
  During the 2016 campaign, Democrats rolled out various reasons why Donald Trump was the wrong choice for the job of president of the United ...
  

• Mailing it in

  By Randall Poulton - Aug 20
  Even before corona, our election system had plenty of problems — remember those hanging chads? But the idea that this November tens of millions of ...
  

• The PPP — Just because you can?

  By Randall Poulton - Jul 23
  The list of companies that received “loans” as part of the Paycheck Protection Program has been released. In case you don't remember, the PPP was ...
  

• The great involuntary experiment

  By Randall Poulton - Jun 18
  In many ways, for the last three months, we have all become guinea pigs in a great, involuntary experiment. Now the results are starting to roll ...
  

• Maine’s Walter Wyman: genius or ecoterrorist?

  By Randall Poulton - May 28
  I am guessing 99% of the folks reading this column have no idea who Walter Wyman is, let alone whether he is deserving of either label. Don't feel ...
  

• No perspective in an online world

  By Randall Poulton - Apr 30
  For the last two months, Mainers have been beaten down with a 24/7 media bombardment of corona doom and gloom. To make matters worse, our American ...
  

• Gone fishin'

  By Randall Poulton - Apr 02
  I expect readers would appreciate a break from 24/7 coronavirus news, and I am sick of politics. So, in this column, I will reminisce a bit about ...
  

• Maine's 10-year plan

  By Randall Poulton - Mar 05
  The Mills administration has just rolled out its economic master plan, titled: Maine Economic Development Strategy (hereafter: the plan). The ...
  

• Maine needs a bed tax

  By Randall Poulton - Feb 20
  My wife and I have arrived in Florida for our annual “spring break.” Maine's six-month-long winter is something I now dread. So, until global ...
  

• How did this happen?

  By Randall Poulton - Jan 23
  Last week's apocalyptic ice storm that wasn't got me thinking. As I watched the hyperventilating talking heads doing live shots while standing in ...