Clarence Page: My surprisingly fond farewell to Jerry Springer

Despite hosting the reputedly “worst show in TV history,” Springer’s candor offered an admirable model for other politicians to remember — and follow.

Editorial cartoon for Sunday, May 7

Thomas Shields: Maine doesn’t need LD 1619

LD 1619, An Act to Improve Maine’s Reproductive Privacy Laws, was heard May 1 by the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee. The bill is centered on abortions, and calls for a factual report to the Department of Health and Human Services on each abortion. The patient is to remain anonymous. What will be omitted from the report […]

Clarence Page: Who is to be held accountable for Emmett Till’s death, now that the witnesses are gone?

The last survivor of the historical horror widely known as “the lynching of Emmett Till” has died, leaving behind an infuriating amount of unanswered questions.

Phyllis Caron: ‘No reason is good enough to kill’

Guns are a big problem. I heard the news where they said a man killed five people next door to him because they wanted him to stop shooting outside of his house — and that’s the reason he killed five people. There was also a man who killed someone and then went to an overpass […]

Michael Boom: A.I. is a bad joke played out too long

Artificial intelligence will never ever know what lies beyond the hereafter. Man-made creations can never ever replace our own father, creator, God. I don’t care how smart some people feel they are, but they are blasphemous if they think they are smarter than God himself. We need to put a serious bridle on those who […]

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The new pandemic may be loneliness

On Tuesday, the surgeon general, Vivek Murthy, put forth proposals for decreasing loneliness. And on Wednesday, I stumbled onto this surprise: Maine ranks No. 1 in loneliness, as judged by divorce rates, searches on dating apps and the number of people living alone.

Editorial cartoon for Saturday, May 6

Froma Harrop: No, 21 is not too young to properly handle classified documents

The effort to shield airman Jack Teixeira from the consequences of compromising national security hinges on portraying him as a kid who didn’t appreciate what he was doing. He is accused of passing around hundreds of classified documents, and the Espionage Act carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison per count.

Peter McKeown: Maine needs to know truth about power corridor’s climate impact

A bill in the Maine Legislature, LD 1658, would ensure accountability for companies pushing big “green energy” projects when they claim climate benefits that could be false. First up on the list would be the New England Clean Energy Connect corridor. I didn’t believe Avangrid, a parent owner of Central Maine Power and NECEC, when […]