From Retiring Guy's Postcard Collection: St. Andre's Church and Rectory, Biddeford, Maine

The last mass.  (Portland Press-Herald, 1/1/2011)

A victim of church consolidation.  The pews were filled for the last Mass at St. Andre, a massive brick church on Bacon Street built 100 years ago to serve the city's burgeoning French-Canadian population. It's striking neoclassical interior, with rounded arches, domed ceilings and heavenly murals, was decked for the holidays with a manger scene, poinsettias, evergreen garlands and white lights. 


Old church could be youth hub. (Sun-Chronicle, 7/25/2013)

Site includes rectory, convent, and 3-bay garage. The century-old St. Andre Catholic Church, on the corner of Sullivan and Bacon streets in downtown Biddeford, has sat empty for almost three years. Now, there’s a plan afoot to purchase the church, and the other buildings on the property, and convert them into spaces for local nonprofit youth service organizations.


Biddeford is located 15 miles southeast of Portland on I-95.

Michael Bloomberg Missed This Forecast

Source:  Forbes

Invisible Child.  Girl in the Shadows:  Desani's Homeless Life.  (The New York Times, 12/8/2013)

The hazy view in Bloomberg's crystal ball.   With the economy growing in 2004, the Bloomberg administration adopted sweeping new policies intended to push the homeless to become more self-reliant. They would no longer get priority access to public housing and other programs, but would receive short-term help with rent. Poor people would be empowered, the mayor argued, and homelessness would decline.

But the opposite happened.

Today New York City has the highest number of homeless children -- 22,000 -- since the Great Depression.

And then there's this 2009 Bloomberg initiative.

Do you, like Sen. Grothman, suffer from convenient memory loss?

Photo credit:  Wisconsin State Legislature

"It" being a proposed constitutional amendment to allow Supreme Court justices to choose a leader among themselves.  The state constitution currently specifies that the senior member of the court serves as the Chief Justice.

Some Wisconsin Supreme Court justices urging senators to support amendment.  Change would let high court choose its chief justice.  (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 12/7/2013)

Impatiently waiting.  State Supreme Court Justice Patience Roggensack contacted Republican state senators urging support of an amendment to the state constitution that could put her in charge of Wisconsin's high court.

Maybe it's his diet.