In mid-May, I spoke to the Rockland Kiwanis, but I didn’t talk about the coast, where the economy is perking right along, led by tourism.

Just ask Eric H. Holder Jr., the nation’s attorney general, who found himself caught in the middle of a long-time-coming scrum between congressional Republicans and President Barack Obama this past week.

When people in Maine talk about the problems with public opinion polling, they often mention the 2009 referendum about allowing same-sex couples the right to marry and how the pollsters got it wrong.

What does conservative pundit Tucker Carlson have to do with an outhouse in Montana?

We are waiting to hear the decision by the Supreme Court on the legality of the individual mandate and the Affordable Care Act. Even though this decision will have an impact on how health care reform progresses, it will not be the ultimate game changer.

“With respect to the notion that I can just suspend deportations (of immigrants brought here illegally as children) through executive order, that’s just not the case, because there are laws on the books that Congress has passed.”

On June 16, the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel offered Our Opinion: “Holding bonds hostage not good for our economy.”