The Damariscotta man, once deemed ‘incapacitated’ because of his autism, is now in control of his life.

It’s reassuring that President Donald Trump says that he’s in “no rush” to respond militarily to last weekend’s devastating air attacks on two Saudi Arabian oil facilities — attacks Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo blamed on Iran. On Sunday the president had tweeted that the United States was “locked and loaded,” waiting only for […]

Gun violence and mass shootings are the focus of attention in Congress, and rightly so. But the news that suicide rates are continuing to rise in the United States adds to the need for the nation to establish stricter gun safety laws. Researchers at Ohio State University studied 453,577 U.S. residents aged 25 to 65 […]

Why is Wilbur Ross still on the public payroll? The commerce secretary’s latest offense is the serious allegation that he ordered professionals at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, upon threat of losing their jobs, to contradict their expert assessments in order to echo rather than contradict President Trump’s errant claims that Hurricane Dorian might […]