No surprise that Americans have spent much of their lockdown watching TV — nor that one of the most-watched shows has been “The Golden Girls.” First aired in 1985, the sitcom portrays four older women, three widows and one divorcee, sharing a house in Miami. They’re “sheltering in place” in that they don’t have outside […]

If you thought the coronavirus presented difficult policy questions, don’t worry — we have science. Gov. Gavin Newsom tweeted the other day, “The West Coast is — and will continue to be — guided by SCIENCE.” Joe Biden has urged President Trump, “Follow the science, listen to the experts, do what they tell you.” Neil […]

“Tomorrow, robins will sing.” — Stevie Wonder “Tomorrow there’ll be sunshine, and all this darkness past.” — Bruce Springsteen “Hurry, tomorrow. Tomorrow, I need you now.” — The Temptations In other words, tomorrow is the place where things will get better. Tomorrow is where everything turns out all right. It is in America’s national character […]

If anyone had told me in my youth that I would one day become the director of a history museum, I would have laughed so hard. I loved my history teacher, Miss Geneva Kirk, but didn’t like learning all those lists of dates and wars. I admired her because of her way of making students […]

It is time for Central Maine Power to come clean and stop telling tall tales about the New England Clean Energy Connect Corridor. It needs to stop telling these tales around jobs, lower electric rates and “clean” hydropower. It needs to tell the truth. For CMP, the corridor is all about huge profits and nothing […]

The Wall Street Journal, which is generally considered conservative when it comes to economic issues, published a front-page story last Monday with this headline: “Coronavirus Means the Era of Big Government Is Back.” Rahm Emanuel, former chief of staff for President Obama and a former mayor of Chicago, is quoted: “The era of Ronald Reagan, […]

Gov. Janet Mills has asked for input from the public on what course Maine should take in the current virus condition. Here is mine. Mainers, in their classic, stoic manner, have been troupers in their respect for the government-mandated requirements to stay at home, maintain “social distancing,” and observe the shutdown of so-called non-essential services. […]

We had to destroy the hospitals to save them. You could be forgiven for thinking that’s the upshot of the coronavirus lockdowns that have suspended elective surgeries and generally discouraged people from going to hospitals. Many hospitals are getting pushed near, or over, the financial edge. At a time when we feared that hospitals would […]