NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” returns with a new episode on March 27 and it remains a mystery whether the show will have someone portray President Biden. A bigger question: Will SNL dare give Biden the same treatment it gave Gerald Ford? President Ford, a star athlete in college, slipped on the steps of Air Force […]

I need someone to tell me what’s happening. Not a tinted version of events but what’s really happening. I make the request because mainstream (if there is such a thing) news outlets seem to fundamentally disagree about what’s important. On Sunday morning, the top story on the Fox News website, complete with video, was rioting […]

Critics and Congressional opponents of the American Recovery Plan (including two of Maine’s four-person delegation) apparently claim the included 2021 stimulus checks of $1,400 are too large, not related/targeted to the pandemic, and/or are not “targeted” to those who will use it “best.” Presumably, they feel they know better who exactly ought to be getting […]

In this, the second of a three-part article, I address more ways the nation’s original sin of slavery has endured over the years and continues to this day. In “How the GI Bill’s Promise was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans,” Erin Blakeman wrote, “When lawmakers began drafting the GI Bill in 1944, some […]

President Biden’s coronavirus economic stimulus bill passed Congress on a straight party vote. Almost. All of the Republicans in the House and Senate voted against it. All of the Democrats voted for it, except one. That was Jared Golden, the member of Congress from Maine’s Second District. His vote raises the historical question of the […]