It’s often said there’s nothing new under the sun, and when it comes to politics, there usually isn’t.  Yet this fall there’s something that truly hasn’t been seen before: networks of Republicans for Kamala Harris, both state and national. In our time, supposedly, of uniquely partisan politics, it’s a doubly surprising development, though not according […]

“Too close to call.”  That’s the election mantra for the presidential and House elections. Even the Senate races show some uncertainty.  The notion that these races will come down to the wire is just what the media likes. It attracts viewers and readers, excites the partisans and keeps political reporters, pundits and pollsters in the […]

Behind the justified outcry following the recent chemical spill at Brunswick Landing is a smaller, but no less potent story of loss and waste. Eighty percent of the Landing’s stormwater drains into a stormwater system that sends its flow into a chain of ponds — Pond A, Pond B, Pond Area C and Picnic Pond […]

My grandson Aiden, a high school senior from Seattle, visited this summer with his family. Aiden has always been a quiet kid, so I was delighted to chat with him one-on-one about the college application process. When I told him I’d heard he did well on the SAT tests, he said with a wry smile, […]

When I ran for my first term in the Legislature, I did so with the goal of making health care more affordable for Maine people. My guess is that you can agree that, for many people in our community, their insurance premiums and out-of-pocket costs for health care or prescription drugs are more expensive, making […]

Whenever you watch those shows about people who live in jungles or warm wild places, do you ever marvel about how the denizens of those areas run around in bare feet? Me, too. They shinny up trees, dance on dirt and sticks and stones, run silently about poison-darting dinner, clamber over big rocks and sometimes […]

Raw and risqué revelations surfaced two weeks ago about North Carolina Republican gubernatorial candidate Mark Robinson’s life between 2008 and 2012. Revealed was his sinewy past as an adult porn commentator on a seedy website that reportedly included a voyeuristic and voracious appetite for viewing sexual bondage and more claims not even CNN felt appropriate […]