Dan Billings is an attorney at Marden, Dubord, Bernier & Stevens in Waterville where his practice focuses on civil litigation and criminal defense. Dan was born in Gardiner and grew up in Bowdoinham, where he continues to live. He has been engaged in local and state politics for more than 20 years. He served two terms on the Bowdoinham Board of Selectmen and currently chairs the town's Finance Advisory Committee. Dan has been involved in numerous Republican campaigns, including managing Rick Bennett's 1994 campaign for Congress and serving as legal counsel for Chandler Woodcock's 2006 gubernatorial campaign.
Before attending law school, Dan worked as a legislative aide at the House Republican Office at the Statehouse, ran a statewide trade association and worked in radio. Dan sees his column in the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel as a way to use his varied experience to help readers better understand the political process and issues facing Maine.
OPINIONS SPECIAL PROJECTSHENRY DAVID THOREAU
Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations. For more, click here.
SPECIAL REPORT: Hunger Series
"For I was hungry," a seven-part editorial series, documents the depth and breadth of hunger in Maine, from the dramatic increase in food pantries to the thousands of children who come to school hungry to the elderly with bare cupboards. For more, click here.
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Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them. Not Thoreau. 150 years ago he ventured into Maine's woods. The high drama of the nature Thoreau encountered made its way into the equally dramatic prose of his book, The Maine Woods. We mark the 150th anniversary of Thoreau's 1857 trip as well as the legacy of this transcendentalist, nature lover and, as author Ted Williams writes, contrarian who loved Maine in its wildest and most rugged incarnations.
