I was appalled to see U.S. Congress members in the New York City courtroom last week. By their presence, they were defending a man accused of election interference by writing off as a business expense his payments to a porn actress for a sexual encounter he had while his wife was home with their baby! […]

Andrew Brown of Bath makes the argument that if more taxes were collected from higher earners on Social Security, the program would remain solvent (“Making the wealthy pay payroll tax will solve Social Security deficit,” May 10). I am reminded of Lawrence Kohlberg’s Heinz dilemma, which asks, as a way to determine the level of […]

I’m a tourist, visiting from Cape Cod. On an early morning walk, I happened upon the fishermen’s Net Yard down on Portland’s waterfront. I’d worked in the fishing industry 40 years ago. So I take a natural interest. The Net Yard was a mess. A tragic example of what happens when a special interest group […]

House Speaker Mike Johnson stood on the steps of the Capitol recently and said, “We all know, intuitively, that a lot of illegals are voting in federal elections, but it is not something that is easily provable.” Do we think he is trying to sow a little doubt on the outcome of the next presidential […]

The recent meeting for MSAD 51’s proposed $3 million artificial turf field misled the public. One of the doctors tasked with discussing the safety of turf fields stated that there really is no difference between injury rates on turf fields versus natural grass. The first sentence of the conclusion in the article he referenced is, […]

I am a big fan of Gov. Janet Mills. The morning after her first inauguration, I felt the gloom of the last eight years lift from my shoulders. I knew better days were coming and they have. Then came Lewiston tragedy and the searing picture on the front page of the paper of President Biden […]

Following President Biden’s announcement that he was pausing bomb shipments to the Netanyahu government in Israel, leading Republicans lit up the airways with criticism of his withholding congressionally approved aid. It seems they forget that Donald Trump did the same thing to President Zelensky in Ukraine. President Biden is taking his action in an effort […]

“We may have come over on different ships, but we’re all in the same boat now!” John Lewis quipped. So we had better pull ourselves together and get rowing in the same direction, before we self-destruct on the rocks of division, disinformation and dangerous rhetoric. Let’s end the storm that cripples our Congress, renders us […]