Pressure on Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer to step down will likely grow now that the court’s session has ended. Breyer, 82, joined the court in 1994. His retirement would allow President Joe Biden to nominate his successor and give Democrats another liberal justice, if confirmed. Supreme Court justices in the U.S. enjoy life tenure. […]

Today, I wrote a letter to Gov. Janet Mills urging her to sign into law LD 1708, An Act to Create the Pine Tree Power Company, which sends this important issue to the voters via direct ballot. I have been a participant in PUC regulatory cases for 23 years, representing all Maine consumers, as an […]

Recent headlines trumpeted Republican Paul LePage’s entry into the 2022 governor’s race against incumbent Democrat Janet Mills. If both candidates stay in – and Mills surely isn’t going anywhere – the outline of the results aren’t difficult to discern.  LePage, who benefited from multi-candidate fields in plurality contests in 2010 and 2014, never won a majority of the vote.  Mills won a seven-way Democratic primary in 2018 using ranked-choice voting, and in […]

Respect the engineers’ recommendation: Replace Brunswick-Topsham bridge You have a job to do, digging gravel, with a wheelbarrow. Do you give this to a 90-year-old person, or to a younger person? Why? You want to go to Oregon by car. Do you take the 20-year-old car? Where do you go in a 50-year-old airplane? We […]

With apologies to the poet E. E. Cummings: It’s Indictment Day, and the world is mud-luscious… Do you feel as jaunty as I do? Maybe not. Maybe you think that the first indictments against the Trump Organization, unsealed Thursday, are chump change. Maybe you think that the 15 felony counts – featuring alleged tax fraud, […]

In their zeal to mollify the leftist progressive wing of their party, President Biden and the Democratic leadership in Congress have seriously jeopardized what was intended to be the Administration’s signature accomplishment – a $4 trillion infrastructure program, the largest national public works project since the New Deal. Deep divisions between progressives, to whom bipartisanship […]