A guy once wrote that, for sheer perverse entertainment, “nothing beats the current spectacle of Republican supplicants quaking at the feet of their master. Nothing better illustrates the sorry state of the party than this abject ritual.” Oh wait – I’m the guy who wrote that. In 2009. About the GOP’s genuflections to Rush Limbaugh. […]

In today’s world, it is hard to discern truth from opinion, or fact from calculated lies. We rely on the press helping us navigate this. The fact is that in 2020 a very encouraging uptick in right whale births was observed with at least 14 newborns reported. The fact is also that no documented right […]

I first met Ashton Grant when he was about one year old. His grandparents, our dear friends Surrey and Hugh Hardcastle, had brought him over to our house. Although Ashton had barely learned to walk, he came rushing, almost running, into the room with a big smile, oozing an “I’m-here-now-the-party-can-begin” kind of charm. Tina and […]

My charge, when I started writing this column many years ago, was to keep it about the local area. Today I must deviate from that because I want to say thanks. As a youngster here on the mean streets of Brunswick I had four major influences to my way of thinking. Four people who taught […]

Seven Republican senators, including Maine’s Susan Collins, voted to convict Donald Trump, and they are getting a bum rap. It’s not because of attacks from home-state Republicans for disloyalty; it’s because some pundits suggest they assumed no risk in voting against Trump thanks to immunity resulting from their not facing voters in the near future. […]