While Congress continues to tilt at windmills, play petty partisan politics, posture for the next election, hold clownish hearings, pander to the media for air time and leak information, they are failing to do the job they were elected to do. Politicians wrongly believe that their goals (power, reelection) are more important than the economic […]

Maine legislators have an opportunity to make a huge, positive difference for those people suffering the effects of substance use disorder by enacting LD 1492, “An Act to Reform Drug Sentencing Laws.” That law would ensure that our state has the proper public health approach to drugs. It also removes significant barriers to treatment services, […]

I write this letter as a registered independent and using just plain common sense, owing no allegiance to any one party. Our elected president ran on a campaign promise that he would “drain the swamp” of corruption in our government. He has an obligation and the right to investigate those individuals in the “swamp.” But […]

A Nov. 14 Washington Post article updated the false or misleading claims made by President Donald Trump since inauguration, with 13,435 “exaggerated numbers, unwarranted boasts and outright falsehoods” in 993 days. Updated another 50 days, at a rate of 13.5 lies a day, Trump has now likely lied over 14,000 times to the American people. […]

This Thanksgiving Day it happened again. Yet another familiar face showed up for our weekly ministry at the Androscoggin County Jail. Though it was good to see this person again, it was not the place we would have preferred to meet and catch up. In the past five years, in my work as part of […]

It is my hope Sen. Susan Collins will request a roll call vote — if the House impeaches the president — for the Senate to vote on the removal of President Donald Trump in order for her to reveal exactly where she stands on the matter. She is not inclined to hold town meetings and […]

It’s a fine line between an oligarchy and a dictatorship. An oligarchy is a system in which all the power of a nation is entrusted to a few. In stark contrast, a dictatorship is a system in which all the power of a nation is entrusted to but one person. Speaking for myself, I would […]

I am a bully. I tell false and misleading statements. I am xenophobic. I speak like a person without much education. I am a narcissist. I surround myself with “yes” men. I have declared bankruptcy not once but twice. I have had many people who were once my “yes” men go to prison. I call […]

Obstructing justice and asking a foreign power to investigate a political rival are high crimes in respect to impeachable offenses. Defying House subpoenas in an impeachment hearing is abuse of power. A president asking a foreign power to investigate a political rival is use of the office for personal gain. These actions are clearly a […]

In response to the Pine Tree Watch article, “Advocates investigate program charged with defense of defendants” (Sun Journal, Nov. 30), I am a private attorney who, for a portion of my cases, represents clients under independent contract (court appointment). Among other items of note, the article points out that during initial appearances and arraignments there […]