With each administration of late we’ve seen both political parties demonstrate their addiction to ever-greater doses of executive power without regard to constitutional limits. In our constitutional structure, the framers left it primarily to Congress to check the executive. But for decades Congress has found it politically expedient to ignore many of the tools given […]

For years, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has been criticized for its shortcomings and nothing ever changes. Gov. Mills and her DHHS supervisory staff need to have their hands slapped. A recent news report (“Death of Lewiston 4-year-old puts Maine’s child welfare failures back in spotlight,” June 4) stated numerous problems […]

President Trump is taking federal funds away from Mainers who are desperately trying to pay the rent and put food on the table. He’s eliminating funding to organizations like Good Shepherd, which are a stopgap for starving Maine families. He’s already eliminated funding for children starving and dying overseas. He’s done nothing about the economy. […]

On Oct. 1, 2024, Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur on the situation in Palestine, included the following in her report on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories: “Since its establishment, Israel has treated the occupied people as a hated encumbrance and threat to be eradicated, subjecting millions of Palestinians, for generations, […]

As the Congress ponders the budget bill for the next year, I am writing to encourage the Maine congressional delegation, and particularly Sen. Susan Collins, as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to do everything in their power to protect the clean energy tax credits contained in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. These tax […]

Why does our senator continue as a Republican? The House has sent her a bill that cuts $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion from Medicaid, food stamps and even Medicare (not to mention renewing the 2017 TCJA tax cuts, resulting in CBO’s nonpartisan $3.8 trillion of net deficits) along with abrogating the ability of the judiciary […]

How much longer will the genocide in Palestine go on? Both Gaza and now the West Bank are under relentless attack. In Gaza, starving people are being shot by Israeli forces as they try to get the scraps of food that is being allowed to trickle in by Tel Aviv. Every day on social media […]

Anyone who has ever dreamt of being the one on the playground who stepped in to help a bullied child — the one who had the courage to stand up against a clear wrong — needs to show that courage now. Just as Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith did in her “Declaration of Conscience” 75 […]