Each year, nearly 50 percent of Americans vow to change their behavior come Jan. 1, resolving to lose weight (a third of us want to slim down every year), get more organized or fall in love. Odds are, they won’t succeed. Just 8 percent achieve their New Year’s resolutions. A quarter give up after the […]

On Dec.10, Lewiston-Auburn lost a prince of a man and a merchant prince – Morris Silverman. Morris, who died at the age of 82, was not only a close family friend but epitomized for me the best of a way of life that is sadly becoming part of a bygone era – the era of […]

As our temporal odometer is about to roll over again, it’s time to check in on well … time itself. As we glance a bit more closely on both our calendars — and for that matter our watches as well — there are a number of events that remind us of the interest that accompanies […]

It is time for Republicans to ask ourselves a question: Are we so obsessed with the damage we believe Barack Obama and the American left are doing to the values we hold dear that we would ignore the serious threat posed by the candidacy of Donald Trump – or is there something even more dangerous […]

   While December saw Maine’s Public Utilities Commission considering policy proposals aimed at increasing the state’s solar power generation and negotiators at the Paris climate change summit reaching agreement on international goals to limit man-made greenhouse gas emissions by 2030,  researchers, companies and governments are already devising and putting into practice commercially viable solutions which […]

Director says herpassion for L-A’s legacy is personal I am writing today feeling inspired and invigorated. I am often asked where the passion for this work comes from. Working at Museum L-A, I wondered how we could make our industrial and community history relevant to today’s high- technology youth. After all, many don’t even know […]

Seeing a long (really long) parade of presidential candidates forced to speak at length and in depth at Thursday’s Republican Jewish Coalition forum provided a helpful side-by-side comparison of the contenders. With the latest CNN national poll (granted, less predictive than early-state polls), Donald Trump (36 percent) is far ahead and Ben Carson has collapsed […]

Another set of atrocities, this time in San Bernardino, has Americans wondering whether anything can be done to lower the body count. Many angry voices on the left have been saying that we could reduce the bloodshed if not for the National Rifle Association and its sympathizers. But they overestimate what gun control can achieve […]

“Star Wars” fans are among the most obsessive cultural devotees out there. We’ve suffered through revisions to our original scriptures and the introduction of new texts that make our initial dedication seem silly.Some puckish fans have even made it a matter of official Census record that their religion is “Jedi.” And, as Chris Taylor writes […]

Life isn’t fair. That universal truth is something that children seem to understand almost intuitively at a young age, but the path through which they develop a sense of what’s fair and what isn’t — and how they act on injustices — is something that has been a puzzle for social scientists. Why is it […]