The federal government should ban them. Girl Scout cookie season is upon us, my friends — the most agonizing of all the seasons. Dieters with ever-worsening health like me who need to lose weight are always at the mercy of those devilish treats — as thin mints are clearly as addictive as nicotine. This year, […]

Last fall, the Build Back Better budget bill seemed on its way to passage, the bookend to a successful first year for the Biden Administration. Today, it sits on the equivalent of a railroad siding, with no indication it will ever move again. What happened? The conventional explanation is that President Biden couldn’t corral two […]

It’s no secret that supporting renewable energy projects is a major priority for me. Climate change has become a real and immediate crisis here in Maine, and it’s vital that we do all we can, as individuals and as lawmakers in Augusta, to reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. For me, supporting renewable energy projects […]

Boy, it didn’t take long for right-wing activists and pundits to jump into attack dog mode once President Biden announced he would nominate a Black woman for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Ilya Shapiro, a constitutional-law expert and an incoming Georgetown Law professor, decided to get a jump start […]

Joe Biden’s promise two years ago during a debate in South Carolina about a future pick for the Supreme Court will create undue pressure, at least temporarily, on his nominee to replace retiring Justice Stephen Breyer. Here’s what then-candidate Biden said: “I’m looking forward to making sure there’s a Black woman on the Supreme Court, […]