None of us will ever forget the winter of our discontent, when ice-burdened trees toppled and crashed like bowling pins, dragging down the wires which until that instant had, like veins, carried our home-life blood to us, keeping our homes functioning and throbbing with life. Impotent now, the wires spread across the ground in grids […]

His tenure as president was punctuated with unrelenting adversity, tortured from the outset by obscenely high inflation and a post-Vietnam-and-Watergate nation that had a sour disposition. His fragmented administration was disproportionately populated by political cronies from his home state of Georgia. His micromanaging style drew widespread derision and his right of center values resulted in […]

“In a perfect and just America, who possesses the greater political power — the rich and wealthy or the language contained within the U.S. Constitution? Answer: The U.S. Constitution, namely, ‘We the People’” (“Don’t let power guide your vote,” Portland Press Herald, Oct. 4, 2023). In our current political/ legislative/judicial environment, however, do “We the […]

Everyone groans when you talk about making New Year’s resolutions, don’t they? Keeping resolutions feels like a chore. Resolutions rub me the wrong way. They’re a headache and something that no one really wants to do. However, people resolutely trudge through the failures of their new year resolutions … knowing full well that even as […]

We have front-row seats for a major fight, perhaps the constitutional fight of the century. Three contenders are in the ring, each a heavyweight. They are the Congress, the Supreme Court and President-elect Donald Trump, who just got involved. The outcome could reveal which of them wields the greatest power. Last April, Congress passed with […]

Maine’s Supreme Judicial Court finds itself with a thorny dilemma on its hands at the start of the New Year. For the first time ever, one of its own members, Associate Justice Catherine Connors, has been recommended for discipline by the Committee on Judicial Conduct after failing to recuse herself for an important foreclosure case […]