I oppose the increasing pressure on our governor to issue a two-month moratorium on evictions.  I bought my three-unit 25 years ago, using the New Neighbors program, and have been putting at least $20,000 back into the property every year for a long time. So it’s much more of a forced savings program for me. […]

Recent investigations into the Department of Homeland Security and the companies entrusted with our hard-earned taxpayer dollars reveal a troubling — and potentially systemic — pattern of Medicare overbilling. The full scope remains unknown, but let’s be clear: even one improperly taken dollar is one too many. These funds are meant for our most vulnerable […]

I laughed when I read the Jan. 18 letter to the editor asking people to “give the Trumpadministration its due.” Mr. Grant’s talking points illustrate the real power behind autocrats like Donald Trump: it isn’t Trump’s selfishness that’s the problem. It’s that millions of supporters believe his lies in the face of overwhelming evidence to […]

President Trump’s call to nationalize elections is a desperate attempt to retain power in the face ofgrowing unpopularity. Such a move would destroy the very essence of the United States. Ours is perhaps the only country whose name describes what our founders intended: a collection of sovereign states united under a constitution.  It’s important to […]

Drew Ketterer’s Feb. 5 op-ed (“Climate superfund bill is an impractical choice for Maine”), concerning LD 1870, continues the petroleum industry’s history of misleading information (he is an attorney for petroleum companies, no surprise there). Readers should be aware of a 2025 report, endorsed by 12 national health organizations (including Physicians for Social Responsibility PSR, […]

In Charles Todorich’s Feb. 8 op-ed about white guilt he claims, “[Racism] has been nearly completely excised from public conversation … [Shelby] Steele writes that today’s conservatives sound like Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963.” Completely excised? It’s as if the president had not, just last week, disseminated racist memes about the Obamas. What might […]

Health care in Maine shouldn’t be this hard. What we need seems so simple: coverage we can afford and high-quality care close to home. But the system we’ve built is anything but simple, and everyone has someone else to blame. National reform is a must, there is no silver bullet, and states can’t wait. As […]

A friend of mine, in Minneapolis, on hearing Sen. Susan Collins voice her support for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, wrote me to say that the best thing the people of Maine can do to support the people of Minneapolis is to replace Susan Collins in November. Whether people support Graham Platner or Janet Mills […]