Douglas Rooks: Sheriff ‘impeachment’ underlines need for change

Douglas Rooks: Chaos in Maine Legislature demands a response

A divergence in priorities between Gov. Mills and the Democratic caucus in each chamber caused a late-session trainwreck.

Douglas Rooks: Finding a path through the nightmare in Gaza

Douglas Rooks: Supreme Court delays becoming intolerable

Douglas Rooks: Progressive income tax makes a small comeback

No big changes will happen while Janet Mills remains governor, but recent legislation gives a hint of things to come.

Douglas Rooks: Legislature leaves behind a tangled trail

The session ended with confusion and a load of legislation not acted on.

Douglas Rooks: Gov. Brennan was like no other Maine politician, before or since

Son of a union longshoreman, Brennan never strayed far from his birthplace, dying just a few blocks from the Kellogg Street tenement where he grew up, the columnist writes.

Douglas Rooks: Finding something universal, unifying in the moment of the eclipse

In Piscataquis and Somerset counties, the columnist saw people uniting under a common purpose.

Douglas Rooks: Maine’s voter referendums in need of an overhaul

Douglas Rooks: Investing against the tide of global warming

A map shows that Maine is on fire. What are we going to do about it?