For Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, spending grown-up time on a threat to the Western alliance might seem an unwanted distraction from his main theme of waging a comic-book war against “woke.” For example, his administration has just revoked the Hyatt Regency Miami’s alcohol license because it hosted “A Drag Queen Christmas.”

At a time when retirees and others are seeing their stock market investments decline and polls showing there is dismay about the country’s financial future, Congress has an obligation to step in and hold accountable the policies and the people responsible for the SVB collapse, and to prevent new ones from occurring.

If LD 714 passes as written, it will add unlawful trafficking, unlawful furnishing and possession of a firearm by a prohibited person to the crimes that someone can be charged with at the scene of an overdose. People are often charged with trafficking or furnishing even if they are not trafficking or furnishing their drugs to others, simply because of the amount of drugs they have in their possession.

The Franco American Heritage Center must create meaning for individuals of Franco heritage, as well as us in the “general public.” Why should anyone be proud to be Franco? If the center can answer that question effectively, it will prosper as it is currently named.

I blame Democrats for making politics about our condition of birth rather than about getting along in the world. But Republicans have made a weapon of identity, putting their cards on the table of white resentment.

Housing is not affordable for a huge number of Mainers, and that puts tens of thousands of Mainers at risk of homelessness, including veterans and seniors. Nowhere in Maine can median-income renters even afford the median rent.

I only find it darkly amusing that the right wing’s ferocious demands for strict “law and order,” especially regarding hoodlums who attack police, remarkably soften when confronted with cases of such lawbreaking by fellow right-wingers.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has issued serial apologies for saying, when asked whether Joe Biden should keep Kamala Harris as his running mate, “I really want to defer to what makes Biden comfortable on his team.” She went on to say, “I like Kamala,” which is what we call “damning with faint praise.”

While it is increasingly difficult to launch successful boycotts against large companies, pro-lifers can take their business to Walgreens that don’t dispense the pill, or to independent pharmacies. It may not change the way most do business, but it can satisfy one’s conscience that they are not part of what some consider a modern version of child sacrifice.