Retiring from The Maine Children’s Home for Little Wanderers is both exciting and very emotional — an end to more than four decades of work benefiting Maine families, children and the community as a whole.

The state is too weary to face the prospect of another three years of irrational acts of its chief executive.

Neither the Republican nor Democratic frontrunner is anywhere close to being capable of handling the job.

The reduction in people receiving food stamps was spurred by a common-sense policy requiring work, volunteering, or job training, Mary Mayhew says.