My family have been hunters and gun owners for many generations. In this pandemic Gov. Mills has changed her position and stated that gun stores are essential businesses in Maine. I don’t agree. Every hunter I know already had a number of firearms that they typically use during the various hunting seasons. Whatever caliber they […]

Americans now count 1 million COVID cases, and we’re approaching a death forecast of 66,000, according to Worldometers.info. These numbers will likely double by summer. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin just declared that our economy would roar back in June, though in early March, economic adviser Larry Kudlow had stated our economy was strong. While we […]

We need to save the U.S. Postal Service, an independent agency of the federal government that functioned smoothly from 1775 until the enactment of the 2006 Postal Accountability and Enhancement Act, sponsored in the Senate by our own Susan Collins, legislation whose impacts were compounded by the pandemic. Rather than let the Postal Service go […]

Voting in all elections, local and national, should begin the process of moving to online. The world we live in does not make it feasible for all voting-eligible citizens to take time out of their workday to go vote during the workweek – let alone if someone is not feeling well that day. I am […]

For several generations public school advocates have successfully campaigned for more and more time in front of our children. Career-minded parents have been all too willing to hand kids over to a burgeoning system requiring more teachers, educational technicians, psychologists, administrators and other support staff. Unnecessarily small class sizes, promoted by teacher unions, seem to […]

By the time self-employed people receive “enhanced” unemployment benefits, it will be too late. It’s nice that benefits will be paid retroactively so accumulated debt can be satisfied, but it will be too late to save many small businesses. I wonder what Maine’s unemployment rate will be six months or a year from now, when […]

I recently saw perhaps one of the most distasteful and dishonest political ads of this campaign season, connecting Republican Sen. Susan Collins’ support of the 2017 tax cuts, which helped thousands of Maine citizens and hundreds of Maine’s small businesses, while at the same time linking that vote to the current COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Unbelievable! […]