After the debate between Sen. Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence, commentators contrasted Pence’s reserved demeanor with the belligerence President Donald Trump exhibited in his debate with former Vice President Joe Biden the previous week. NPR Congress editor Deirdre Walsh asserted that Pence’s debate style was an “almost polar opposite of the president’s.” New […]

Vote Lyons Since relocating to Topsham after completing a military career in 1986, I had the privilege of getting to know Ruth Lyons. We first met at the town office where she served as the town clerk. She was extremely helpful and assisted me with such things as vehicle and voter registrations and provided directions […]

Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s stubborn, self-defeating refusal to venture an opinion on suggestions to increase the number of U.S. Supreme Court justices is a textbook example of poor decision-making that’s turned what should have been a one day story into a running narrative that threatens to dominate the campaign discussion three weeks out from […]

This column first appeared in December 2010. In 2020, the World Food Program won the Nobel peace prize. Recently, I flew halfway across the country with former Senator George McGovern, traveling with the now 88-year old political veteran to his home state of South Dakota. When McGovern was the Democratic candidate for president in 1972, […]

Brunswick clerk, staff make voting easy I am writing to thank the Brunswick Town Clerk and staff and volunteers for the suburb job they are doing to make voting in the Nov. 3 election as easy as possible. We received our requested ballots by mail, filled them out, and I took the ballots down to […]

As a former investment banker who teaches political economy, I’m relatively conservative on economic issues. I believe in individual liberty, fiscal responsibility and competitive markets, sensibly governed. So I’m shocked at how irresponsible the Republican party has become. Tax cuts and deregulation may have made sense in the 1980s, but that philosophy has been taken […]