What was Mike Pence supposed to do? Attention is again focused on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the Capitol when the Vice President didn’t do what then President Trump wanted and stop counting the electoral votes that would make Joe Biden president. Just what he was supposed to do was never clear. At least […]

Christmas Eve, 1966: My then-wife Carol and I took our 7-week-old son David III to church in Canton, Massachusetts. Swaddled in a fuzzy white sleeper sack, he was the hit of the service. Old ladies cooed. Old men smiled. Small children peered in wonder at the baby’s face, thinking that baby David might have been […]

In the 1960s, when Maine had poorly paid teachers, decrepit high schools and the lowest incomes in New England, it made little sense to increase property taxes to provide better schools. So Gov. Ken Curtis, with the aid of key Republican legislative leaders, enacted a progressive income tax in 1969 that lowered property taxes and […]

I’m filled with a renewed sense of hope all of the sudden. Truthfully, I don’t know why I feel such hopefulness. Last Friday I went to the hospital to have a hernia surgically repaired. They stuffed a hose down my mouth and pumped me with air, then sliced and sewed and got my torn parts […]