Notes From Away: Hedge Trimming
By Tom Lamia In one of my early columns for WestView News, I critiqued the practice of using talking points as crib notes in political […]
By Tom Lamia In one of my early columns for WestView News, I critiqued the practice of using talking points as crib notes in political […]
By Tom Lamia The personally acknowledged precursor to Donald Trump has announced his candidacy for Governor in Maine’s 2022 election. Maine’s Constitution limits its governors […]
By Tom Lamia It is late spring in Maine, a season that for most of the state opens the planting and nurturing process for home […]
By Tom Lamia Maine is two worlds. The inhabitants of each differ in many ways, but in no way more threatening to peaceful coexistence than […]
By Tom Lamia In a review of 1774: The Long Year of Revolution by historian and former Cornell professor Mary Beth Norton (New York Review […]
By Tom Lamia How is this impasse among us to be resolved? When and by what means can we expect to resume civility in our […]
By Tom Lamia As all of you have done or are doing, I have waited patiently for my release from Covid 19 since news of […]
By Tom Lamia There is a feeling of rescue, of emerging from a hiding place and finding quiet isolation for the moment. Some of this […]
By Tom Lamia I have spoken often in this monthly column about Maine, my home for the past six years. I have contrasted Maine characters […]
By Tom Lamia The election is over but the post-mortems are in a full gallop, seeking rationalization for what turned out to be close when […]
By Tom Lamia In September I wrote of Gender Politics as shorthand to describe the Maine U.S. Senate race between Susan Collins and Sara Gideon. […]
By Tom Lamia In mulling over possible topics for yet another column melding the virtues and fates of small town life on the coast of […]
By Tom Lamia Two women are faced off in the race for U.S. Senator in this year’s Maine general election. One, Susan Collins, is a […]
By Tom Lamia It has been a strange summer in Maine. No stranger, perhaps, than yours in the West Village, but maybe a different kind […]
By Tom Lamia On the road to partisanship, we have traveled all but the last mile. If there is no off-ramp to be found before […]
By Tom Lamia My nature is to be reclusive, so the experience that we all have had for the last two months—staying inside when possible, […]
By Tom Lamia Several years ago, I was having construction work done at my farm property here in Maine. The contractor brought in a crew […]
By Tom Lamia Witches have always been with us. Proof of their existence lies in the certitude and authority of those that hunt them. If […]