When Lindsay Graham was running for President in 2016, he warned, “Trump is a wrecking ball for the future of the Republican Party.” You nailed it, Lindsay, although your total post-election turnaround on Trump revealed your spineless character. It’s sad that millions of Republican primary voters preferred a lying, racist, narcissistic, bullying, reality TV star […]

Black Americans have been the least inclined of any racial or ethnic group to say they’d get vaccinated against the coronavirus. The proportion of Black people who said they’ll probably or definitely take the shot has risen over time – but even by mid-January, with two COVID-19 vaccines authorized for emergency use in the U.S., […]

There have been many tributes to outdoorsman George Smith, who died Feb. 12 at age 72 from ALS, a disease that he bore with remarkable fortitude and courage over the last four years of his life. Perhaps there’s room for one more. Smith was best known as executive director of the Sportsman Alliance of Maine, […]

We’ve been grappling with the COVID-19 pandemic for nearly a year now. That’s a long time to be working from home, or in-person with added personal protective equipment and safety standards. I know so many people are still grappling with reduced work hours or unemployment. Thankfully, there appears to be a light at the end […]

In 2020 in Maine, corporations donated more than $1.5 million to candidates and candidate-controlled PACs with energy, healthcare and pharmaceutical industries as the largest contributors. Since corporations give substantial money to Maine candidates and PACs to buy access to politicians and to influence their voting in favor of corporation goals, the impact and voices of […]

Is it just I or do all geezers get sudden memory flashes of years-gone-by when one reaches one’s 80s? Well, folks, I have and I do. Some good, some not so good. OK, mostly good. Today, for reasons I do not understand (you know, the geezer thing), I began to remember how it happened that […]