The recent deployment of National Guard units to Washington, D.C., raises serious concerns. There’s no actual emergency, civil unrest or natural disaster — yet troops patrol peaceful streets. With crime rates lower than they have been in 30 years, the rationale is unclear. Is this just political theater, or a quiet rehearsal for normalizing military […]

Each day we watch the horror unfolding in Gaza. Its people are dying in ever increasing numbers from starvation and military attacks. The entire country is being reduced to rubble. Many of the victims are young children, babies and women. Food awaits distribution as the desperately hungry are murdered seeking this sustenance. Does anyone honestly […]

I was horrified when I heard that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed to rescind a 2009 declaration that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are a danger to public health and welfare. The stated goal for this rollback is to remove the need for regulations and to save Americans money. The announcement did not include […]

When Maine Republican Sen. Joe Martin comes up for air, someone might remind him that Canadian tourism was down in Maine 28% in July, in large part due to the on again, off again tariffs, and our blatant disrespect for our Canadian neighbor’s sovereignty by suggesting it become the 51st state. In Martin’s recent letter […]

Another global spectacle by President Trump, this time in Alaska, on Aug. 15, when he stood on an actual red carpet and played acolyte and cypher to a superior negotiator, tactician and strategist, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Days before, Trump had bombasted vainglorious assertions that he’d put red line demands on Putin and, if the […]

For years, Maine’s disabled public service retirees faced a punitive and outdated policy: the MainePERS Social Security Disability offset. This offset allowed MainePERS to profit with full employee and employer contributions while paying reduced benefits for a tiny subset — those whose public service job paid into both MainePERS and Social Security and are receiving […]

I suggest that Democrat leaders all over the country create a united, positive vision for the Democratic Party and create it sooner than later. In 2025, Donald Trump hammered home his vision that Democrats, so-called elites and wokes, were the “deep state” weaponizing against him. It worked and helped him win in 2024. Democrats all […]