Seriously? The headline and article “Trump: Democrats’ message to military ‘seditious behavior’ punishable by death” was on Page 3 of the Nov. 21 paper? That should have been front page news, in bold letters. The president of the United Sates is suggesting members of Congress should be killed for stating facts and supporting the military […]

While watching the Ken Burns production “The American Revolution,” a salient and very strong narrative keeps coming through the series. That is, how far we have gotten away from the original intent of the fight for democracy. It is good to be reminded that the one of the objects of our “original discontent” was we […]

It’s a peculiar American pastime: we champion an underdog, then turn around and tear him, or her, down again. Democratic senatorial candidate Graham Platner is the most recent case in point. Local and national media touted his back story: a small-town Mainer, a Marine Corps veteran and a successful oyster farmer. But then all hell […]

I have a dream. Graham Platner, that harbor master and oyster farmer from Sullivan who is winning hearts and minds with his lively town hall meetings around the state, could run for the soon-to-be vacant Maine 2nd District seat. I think he’d win and Congress sure could use his gutsy presence. Graham Platner for Congress! […]

I am a 94-year-old Jewish American who still has fire left in the belly. I enlisted and served for three and a half years in the United States Marine Corps. My father was born in Odessa, Ukraine, and my mother was born in a small village near Moscow. Persecuted by pogroms, they emigrated to Canada and then […]

Sen. Angus King often talks about the danger of authoritarianism from the Trump presidency. He defends his work to pass legislation to end the shutdown in part because of his concern that the president gained powers when the government was shut down and to end the pain that many Americans felt as a consequence of […]

I had to put time aside to write to Victoria Hugo-Vidal to thank, commend and applaud her Nov. 16 column (“Virtue signaling is out, vice signaling is in”), which was a masterpiece. She nailed it! The influence of this foul administration! Over and over, I think to myself (I live alone) exactly what Hugo-Vidal concisely […]