Winter is here, and as temperatures drop, we are reminded of the harsh reality that more than 100 Maine veterans do not have a place to call home. While the Maine Bureau of Veterans’ Services and our many partners are doing everything possible to locate permanent housing for veterans in need, we need the community’s […]

Maine’s new governor is a breath of fresh air, much unlike the former administration. Her promise of cleaner air by 2050 and her weekly radio address give me a better sense of pride for my home state. If the other 49 state administrators follow suit, I see a better country in which to live. Dave […]

Mainers should be proud and thankful for Congressman Jared Golden. Rep. Golden’s response to the question of impeachment has been calm and measured. Though I might not have voted the way he did, it is clear that he carefully considered the available evidence prior to making his decision, as the Constitution requires him to do. […]

When Islamic terrorists brought down the World Trade Center towers, the threat to national security interests was credible enough to go to war. We constructed military bases so we could execute special operations to the maximum benefit. We now have a credible threat to our national security interests, posed by Mexican drug cartels. Since Mexico […]

In this era of uncertainty, I wanted to share this quote from George Orwell, the author of “1984” and an indomitable defender of liberty against threats from both the left and the right: “The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are […]

Central Maine Power said the Sportsman’s Alliance of Maine supports the New England Clean Energy Connect. No, it doesn’t; support has been withdrawn. It said power from Hydro Quebec is clean energy. No, it’s not. It said power from HQ is from a new source that hasn’t already been used. No, it’s not. CMP said […]

In her guise as a moderate Republican, Sen. Susan Collins demanded a fair hearing during the Brett Kavanaugh hearings. Then she disappeared behind Mitch McConnell’s nomination process, voting for President Trump’s nominee without hearing all the witnesses. Deborah Ramirez, a college friend of Kavanaugh, accused the nominee of sexual assault but was denied an opportunity […]

Wow, talk about abuse of power. Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s dictating to the Senate is way out of line. The two houses of Congress were set up as two distinct entities. If the leaders of the Senate allow her to push them around, they will be setting a bad precedent. Congress has been […]

Lyndon Johnson fabricated an incident in the Gulf of Tonkin to persuade Congress to support his war in Vietnam. Goal: Independent South Vietnam • 57,685 U.S. soldiers killed; • 153,000 hospitalized, thousands require long-term care; • Two million civilian deaths; and • 250,000 South Vietnamese soldiers killed. Duration: nine years Result: Failure George Bush used […]

For quite a while now, there have been a lot of lamentations about how the two political parties cannot get anything done down in Washington, D.C. With false sobs, the pundits bemoan the fact that there is no reaching across the aisle to solve the problems of the country. And yet, when it comes to […]