If we squeeze one end of a water balloon, the other end gets bigger. So when the federal government squeezes FEMA and Medicaid, for example, who takes responsibility for paying for repairs to infrastructure after natural disasters and for health care for families who may already be working but can’t afford health insurance? We may […]

This summer we’re making our annual pilgrimage to Prince Edward Island. And soon I’ll be taking my wife to Quebec City for our anniversary. I hear talk of tensions between the U.S. and Canada. People are fearful and angry. But, as in any relationship, spending time together with the ones we love is always the […]

I applaud the organizers of the protests against President Trump’s disdain for the Constitution and disrespect for people here and around the world. But this is not 1963, when television images of young Black kids being attacked by police dogs pricked America’s conscience and created an environment favorable to the eventual passage of the Civil […]

Democrats are advised to give President Trump the honor that the office of the president deserves. That’s fine, except that the president should reciprocate. In most of his midnight texts, he refers to Democrats as radical left-wing lunatics. As long as he keeps demonstrating his lack of bipartisanship, he will be the president, but he […]

Like a bug being crushed underneath a heel — that’s what fascism feels like. And that’s what President Trump and his minions intend — to keep everyone feeling so low that no one has the energy to act. Everything this chainsaw administration proposes is heart-wrenching: deeper than deep cuts to social services, education, medical research, […]

I would like to applaud and strongly support what critic Jon Calame said in his May 18, 2025 column in the Sunday Telegram regarding the proposed Old Port Square tower. I think Calame was being very polite in his opposition to the tower. I think such a building would be an obscenity. Maybe some think […]

Hannah Pingree recently announced her resignation from the role of director of the governor’s Office of Policy Innovation. We remember Pingree, the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree, a failing, partisan U.S. Representative. Pingree served four terms in the Maine House of Representatives, some as speaker or as majority leader. She accomplished little, always mouthing the […]

In a powerful 1982 film, “The Verdict,” Paul Newman delivers one of the most touching defenses of evident truth ever captured on film – for a woman rendered crippled through drugs mistakenly given to her by a prominent hospital, defended by prestigious lawyers, while he stands alone. In his character’s impassioned closing in the medical […]