For most of the night, the more polished and media savvy Sen. JD Vance seemed to be winning the debate, in my view. But when Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz challenged him to say who won the 2020 election, Vance’s discomfort with his running mate’s growing web of half-truths, fabrications and outright lies seemed to show itself.

Florida is no stranger to the occasional big “blow,” but climate change may have completely rewritten the meteorological future, and it’s not sunny.

Launched in 2020, CBP One was intended as a good-government, time-saving tool to manage the legitimate flow of people and goods at the border, but it’s now been twisted to launder illegal immigrants into the country.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s latest display of inadequate planning and operational clumsiness suggests providing robust, seamless communications systems and coordinating air operations may be the most materially productive and politically wise use of the Department of Defense in natural disaster response.

Her answers are not likely to help her with the few voters who say they are still “undecided.”

Commonsense Mainers should think long and hard about whether this is the direction we should move our state.