As Mainers, we should all be very concerned about the strike at Bath Iron Works and what it means for the future of the shipyard. What happens at BIW will have tremendous impact across Maine. The reality is that BIW is an absolutely massive contributor to Maine’s economy. In addition to employing 6,600 people, the […]

She was a teacher in Michigan. She was in line at a Walmart in rural Ohio. She was at a bar in San Francisco. She was a post office supervisor in Miami. He told her to smile, and she didn’t. He wanted to buy her a drink, and she declined. He didn’t like her driving. […]

The violence perpetrated in the streets of cities across America continues because state and local elected officials (all Democrats) refuse to do what is necessary to stop it. These acts no longer fit the definition of protest. Rather, sedition defines them: “incitement of discontent or rebellion against a government.” President Trump has ordered agents from […]

It would take quite a spectacle to upstage America’s humiliating failure to contain the coronavirus. It’s not every day that the Bahamas labels U.S. tourists as carriers of disease to be kept out. President Donald Trump’s poll numbers continue to sink as cases and death tolls rise. The only thing that could possibly save him […]

As I sat in my vehicle watching the concert on the Andover town green several weeks ago, I was touched to see so many familiar faces, people in many cases whom I have known and respected for years, even decades. The view was made especially poignant in these COVID-19 circumstances when so much is unsettled […]

In this summer of Republican discontent, a handful of GOP House members have identified what’s ailing the party: Liz Cheney. The two-term Wyoming congresswoman, chair of the House GOP Conference and daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney was called out at a conference meeting for myriad alleged sins, including insufficient loyalty to President Donald […]

We are watching a show. It’s important to keep that in mind. It has its villains — Mayor Lori Lightfoot of Chicago, Mayor Ted Wheeler of Portland and other supporters of the “liberal, radical left” idea that people have the right peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. It […]

Forcing children back into close contact in school before we have any vaccine or treatment for COVID-19 puts the whole country at even greater risk. The fatality rate still hovers around 4%, though politicians blame the increased numbers of dead on increased testing which, of course, makes zero sense. And in most jurisdictions, testing is […]

Many of us have the illusion that each person is responsible for his or her own health care cost. Each person pays his or her health insurance premiums and co-pays, and how he or she chooses to manage his or her health is nobody else’s business. However, that is not how health insurance works. All […]