Graham Platner has been smeared as a secret Nazi by opposition researchers for a chest tattoo that resembled the SS Totenkopf. Skulls, with or without a jawbone or crossed femurs, have been symbols adopted by military units, particularly those viewed as elite, since long before pirates used it for a flag. The elite Marine Raider […]

See something, say something. We’ve often heard this phrase as a way to keep our society a safer place. The news often shows current threats such as a man with guns at an airport canvasing the security checkpoints then being arrested,  boats heading toward the U.S. with lethal illegal drugs, etc. People see something, say […]

One of the things Republicans often say they care about, at least during Democratic administrations, is the budget deficit. Given that our nation has added $1 trillion to the national debt in the last two months, driving it from $37 trillion to $38 trillion, their sudden silence on the subject is odd. This is partly […]

Graham Platner is my friend. His mother runs a local restaurant. His father was lawyer for me and my neighbors until he retired, handling title searches, divorces, wills and bankruptcies. He was the closest thing to Atticus Finch we had in Ellsworth. When I needed new chain on my mooring last June, I asked Graham for […]

As I contemplate next year’s Maine Democratic Party primary for Senate, involving the two leading candidates — Gov. Janet Mills and Graham Platner — the highly quotable phrase attributed to legendary baseball player Yogi Berra comes to mind: “It’s like déjà vu all over again.” In 1968, I was a graduate student at Columbia University […]

I appreciated the Maine Sunday Telegram’s Editorial Board position in “A lot done to ease SNAP fear in Maine. A lot more to do.” (Our View, Nov. 2). As stated, the current crisis “has shed valuable light on the precarity of day-to-day life for so many of us.” In my own case, I discovered, despite my Maine […]

Hi, neighbors. Have you noticed how the “new progressives” keep calling everyone they dislike a Nazi, melting down over guns, and insisting white men always skate by … until Graham Platner shows up, checking those same boxes? Funny how that works. This isn’t progressivism, it’s regressivism. A political performativism by an affluent, government-dependent, “college-educated,” noisy […]