Using a link on the Maine Monitor’s website, I watched the video of the Justin Savage arrest several times. Having spent 35 years in a job that required frequent training and retraining in techniques for deescalating potentially physically aggressive situations, it looked to me that Trooper Ritland was doing a more than reasonable job of […]

Gov. Janet Mills is too old to become a freshman U.S. senator. She needs to retire successfully as governor. We need younger people with greater energy and new ideas. She would be 84 years old before her term expires. In recent photographs, Gov. Mills looks extraordinarily tired. She appears to have little patience with people […]

On Oct. 18, thousands of Mainers will join millions of Americans for the No KingsRally — a peaceful, nationwide stand for democracy. In America, we don’t do kings. This rally is to reject authoritarianism in all its forms: the glorification of unchecked power, the erosion of voting rights, the use of force against peaceful protest […]

Describing President Trump’s Sept. 23 speech to the U.N. General Assembly, foreign newspapers called it “deranged,” “violent,” “insulting,” “incoherent” and “crazy.” I say, “Trump is dangerous.” In his speech he claims that climate change is “the greatest con job ever perpetrated on the world.” Now that he gets no resistance from the courts nor the […]

President Trump has made some bold moves to secure our country. OK, what’s in it for me? I have not heard of any tax breaks for the middle class. Also, he has made many presidential changes, i.e., renaming the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America. Since he has been in office, gun violence has […]

Absentee voting is essential to a large portion of Maine’s population: seniors and Mainers with chronic health problems that prevent them from driving or going to the polls. Making absentee voting more difficult will jeopardize the ability of these Mainers to vote. I speak from experience. My mother-in-law had severe COPD and could no longer […]