Some sage advice to all those deciding to run for office this year:

First: Man or woman, boy or girl, be sure to get your hair cut or styled.

Just a reminder to all the hard working people in Maine to be aware that if you make over $250,000, your tax breaks are going to expire. Of course that is for a couple. It’s $200,000 for a single person.

Wiscasset Redskins/ Wiscasset Warriors. Canadians, Frenchman, Flatlanders or those people — from away. It certainly is interesting what a word or phrase will invoke in the emotions and takes on money and time. We could do something more important things like put people to work, cure cancer, teach our kids.

The Biscay Road and School Street have been ditched, had new larger culverts installed and paved. There is no telling how much longer we might have had to wait if it had not been for the hard work of Senator Trahan and Representative McKane. They personally brought the Commissioner of the Department of Transportation down here twice, they called and wrote to the DOT incessantly and we can see the results.

It was something of a surprise to find out Monday morning someone in the U.S. Senate attached a rider to a routine defense appropriations bill that if approved, would have repealed the half-baked Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy, which was forced on the military during President Clinton’s watch in 1993.

There is never a good time to start an unpleasant conversation. Anyone who has ever had to be the bearer of bad news knows that.

We would like to thank all who were involved in the incredibly successful supper and yard sale benefit for the late Mikie Simmons Aug. 28. Although the outcome inevitably was not what we had hoped, it was a wonderful tribute to Mikie.

I’m writing in response to Mr. Michael Uhl’s letter “Send Democrats to Augusta and Washington” which appeared in the Sept. 9 edition of the LCN. I was especially taken by his statement “folks paying their fair share.”

To the Editor:Having been involved in politics and having attended party conventions, I learned two things. Conventions are free drinks and food at a candidate’s hospitality suites. Party platforms are a joke and no candidate adheres to them. Paul LePage is no more committed to the Republican platform than Libby Mitchell is to the Democrat […]

We give Thomas Steele-Maley credit; if he’s right, and no one will know for years exactly how right or wrong he is, he has dreamed up a model for a 21st-century education.

“It’s the economy, stupid:” a phrase used by the 1992 Clinton campaign. Could there be any phrase more appropriate today here in Maine?

It is this country’s belief that if you subsidize something, it will eventually get better. Does anyone believe the stimulus was for the poor?

Most people are convinced politicians are out of touch. It is easy to believe big wheels like the President and the Senators and Congressmen don’t relate to the average man/woman. In light of the amount of money it takes to run for a federal office, we concede the point.

I want to thank Ellen Dickens for her letter highlighting my vote against the gigantic bond package of 2009. I’m proud of it – it’s not easy voting against hordes of lobbyists and special interests all demanding more taxpayer money. (“Jon McKane voting record,” Page 4)