Keep an eye on your mailbox, where you can expect to see an upbeat letter from Gov. Mills arrive with your check, but no talk of real change. Mainers can count on more of the same, which means your costs will continue to increase while your elected representatives pat themselves on the back for sending you a $450 check.

Communist China threatens the world. That said, America’s own structural debt is the biggest self-inflicted threat the U.S. faces.

How do we get them back? By starting in the schools with real ideas and concepts being taught by non-woke teachers, or in private schools, or the growing home school movement. Have students read the classics, the Constitution and Federalist Papers, instead of books promoting various cultural fads and political agendas.

The fact is that an anti-authority spirit pervades a portion of the party, and the authority it opposes is that of its own side.

A work in progress: the destruction of the House of Representatives as a serious, credible, legislative body — unraveling in the context of this week’s embarrassing attempt by House Republicans to elect a new speaker.