Since 2011, several governors have challenged organized labor in high-profile ways. Andrew Cuomo, D-N.Y., instituted a comprehensive reform of the Empire State’s famously expensive public pension system; Scott Walker, R-Wis., curbed collective-bargaining rights for public employees; and Rick Snyder, R-Mich., gave the Wolverine State a right-to-work law. These moves were made at great political risk […]

The Affordable Care Act is now a year old. And it’s still growing up. Well, for the time being. Four justices of the Supreme Court have decided to hear a case (King v. Burwell) about whether or not Obamacare tax credits, or subsidies, for citizens are legal. The case is based on legislative language ”“ […]

As I read the story about the snowfall in “upstate” New York, it made me think as it sometimes does about the years I lived in Alaska more than 35 years ago. That time in my young life played a significant role in my settling here in Maine 20 years later. During my first winter […]

There were 60 Democrats in the Senate on Christmas Eve 2009, when they voted in lockstep to pass the Affordable Care Act. Soon there will be 46 Democrats in the Senate, or perhaps 47, if Sen. Mary Landrieu manages to eke out a win in Louisiana. In plain numbers, the post-Obamacare trajectory has not been […]

It seems fitting now that Kevin Harvick tried intimidating fellow Chase for the Sprint Cup finalist Joey Logano during a Chase finale press conference last week as Harvick has long been known as the driver that replaced the man referred to as “The Intimidator,” Dale Earnhardt Sr. But on Sunday, Harvick became known as something […]

In addition to rescuing the Constitution from Barack Obama, there was another vitally essential issue addressed in the midterm elections. Last week, Carol Tobias, National Right to Life president, triumphantly explained: “As we witnessed Tuesday, in election after election, National Right to Life and its network of 50 state affiliates and more than 3,000 local […]

The Republican of Springfield (Mass.), Nov. 11, 2014 John Roberts is chief justice of the United States. There are times, though, when his position makes him more a king. Such was the situation two years ago, when the Supreme Court decided a case that could have effectively killed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. […]