TweetRoxanne Quimby, in an editorial in the Bangor Daily News, made an attempt at apologizing for her derogatory remarks she made about the people of Maine and the state in general. Maybe people don’t understand what an apology is or how to go about giving one. At the end of Quimby’s apology, she quotes Abraham [...]
TweetRoxanne Quimby has an odd way of seeking support for her 70,000-acre national park. As was pointed out in an earlier featured article on the Maine Web Report, Quimby has not made very many friends since becoming a land baron in the state of Maine. She has taken that continued poor public relations campaign to [...]
TweetA very popular website, “As Maine Goes”, recently headlined a story, “Coyotes: Good or Bad for Maine?“. The last time I checked there were 6 pages of discussion on the topic. Missing from those pages was any discussion about diseases carried by coyotes. We know from previous studies that Maine’s coyote population, arguably numbering in [...]
Tweet*Update*: Quimby Buys 11,000 Acres More of Land To some, Roxanne Quimby is the quintessential success story. A kind of rags to riches story of a woman creating a product popular with consumers and growing from a kitchen business to a multimillion dollar enterprise. She sells her business and begins making other investments. Is this [...]
TweetWhat began as a troubling and disgusting story of Lynn C. Taylor, 64 of Portage Lake, Maine stealing, “misappropriating” for those wishing to be politically correct, money that belonged to the State of Maine, now has a bizarre and disturbing twist, leaving many Maine residents wondering what is going on. On September 12, 2001, on [...]
TweetAmericans should be asking themselves this morning why it took nearly three weeks for the president to get his act together in order to deliver a speech that said in another 11 days or so, he will give us some details on how he’s going to create some more jobs. Are you kidding me? Why? [...]
TweetThe Bangor Daily News goes out of its way to excoriate Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas as possessing, “extreme conservatism” and manipulating the other members of the High Court to follow his “extremism”. It appears that the editorial staff of the BDN relies completely on the work of another journalist’s writing in the New Yorker [...]
Tweet*Editor’s Note* All photos taken by Milt Inman. There are two wind energy projects under construction in Maine this summer – Record Hill Wind in Roxbury near Rumford and Spruce Mountain Wind in Woodstock. The picture to the left was taken recently as trucks, escorted by Maine State Police, were winding their way through the [...]
Tweet Of course if you are one of the ones directly affected by Tropical Storm Irene, you may not agree with the assessment that Maine was spared the brunt of the storm, although there are pockets of serious damage. As of this writing, no deaths or serious injury had been reported. One report out of [...]
