If money wasn’t an issue, would citizens feel differently about immigration? Reasons that President Trump uses for pushing immigrants out of the country are money and “crime.” But if he knew that immigration is great for our economy, and that immigrants are rarely criminals, would that change the way he treats immigrants? How about Mainers? […]

If money wasn’t an issue, would citizens feel differently about immigration? Reasons that President Trump uses for pushing immigrants out of the country are money and “crime.” But if he knew that immigration is great for our economy, and that immigrants are rarely criminals, would that change the way he treats immigrants? How about Mainers? […]

It must be true there are a number, if not many Christians today, who in the privacy of their hearts have come to realize the president they helped elect is not the Christian leader they envisioned, or hoped might become. When they see the litany of things he has said which contradict the most fundamental […]

As an educator and supporter of the Second Amendment, I encourage fellow Mainers to vote “Yes” on Question 2 this November. The Extreme Risk Protection Order or red flag law will protect our communities by enabling family or friends of a person in mental crisis to go directly to court to temporarily restrict that person’s […]

Using a link on the Maine Monitor’s website, I watched the video of the Justin Savage arrest several times. Having spent 35 years in a job that required frequent training and retraining in techniques for deescalating potentially physically aggressive situations, it looked to me that Trooper Ritland was doing a more than reasonable job of […]

Gov. Janet Mills is too old to become a freshman U.S. senator. She needs to retire successfully as governor. We need younger people with greater energy and new ideas. She would be 84 years old before her term expires. In recent photographs, Gov. Mills looks extraordinarily tired. She appears to have little patience with people […]