The current prices being paid to farmers under the Maine Milk Pricing Tier System are falling short. That means our farmers are losing money on every gallon they produce.
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Rich Lowry: Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bizarre case against the Republican speaker of the House
Greene made her anti-Mike Johnson case on Tucker Carlson’s show last week, and it was — as you’d expect — a stew of conspiratorial thinking and sophomoric ranting.
Clarence Page: Donald Trump goes all in defending Jan. 6 mob and Karl Rove goes off
Republican strategist Karl Rove has some excellent advice for Donald Trump, which, judging by his usual resistance to even the mildest criticism, Trump probably will refuse to hear.
Austin Bay: As Israel crushes Hamas, aid Ukraine and secure American borders
Republicans have watched the border deteriorate. The Republicans argue, sensibly, we need to defend our borders as well as Ukraine’s.
Cal Thomas: Trump’s abortion statement
Trump’s statement, while welcome in part, cedes the moral high ground when he says abortion is up to individuals. That puts us back to where we started from, with the 1973 Supreme Court decision.
Froma Harrop: The anti-abortion right is not into compromise
What Donald Trump is truly in favor of is not caring one way or another. Unfortunately, the anti-abortion right cares very much. The end of Roe has emboldened it to go after the compromises it never wanted to make and the great American majority demands.
Froma Harrop: Biden needs Haley’s voters more than Bernie’s
Biden needs to keep Democrats united as is politically doable while getting the never-Trump Republicans to actually cast a vote — if not whole-heartedly for him, at least for the democracy.
Bob Neal: The Countryman: When regular people sit on their hands
The people of Gaza elected Hamas in 2006 and didn’t resist a year later when Hamas beat the rival Palestinian Authority in a brief war. They remained silent as Hamas dug more than 300 miles of tunnels, many of them under hospitals and schools to provide cover for Hamas fighters.
Cal Thomas: Repeat, repeat, repeat
When it comes to the Middle East, repetition has been unsuccessful in causing Europeans and many in America to accept certain truths.
Loring Danforth: English class the day before Eid
This important Muslim holiday would begin that very evening with the sighting of the new moon, the same moon that had just inspired thousands of people with the long thin shadow it cast across all of Maine and across the whole United States.