Biden must show positive results over the next 12 months from NATO’s vast investment in Ukraine’s charismatic young leader, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, or his reelection will be in jeopardy.
Doug Rooks
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Douglas Rooks: Despite what you hear, guns do not equal freedom
Since the 1970s, I’ve written editorials about what was then called “gun control.” In recent years, I largely passed over the subject. Back then, it was unthinkable elementary school kids could be gunned down in a classroom, Bible classes and synagogues profaned, or that shopping malls, cinemas, restaurants and music festivals would see mass killing […]
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Douglas Rooks: Maine needs bold ideas to capture the moment
If your taste runs to bold initiatives, then a call by Sen. Craig Hickman (D-Winthrop) for a constitutional commission to advance specified policy aims is just what you’re looking for. Hickman’s bill, L.D. 1824, heard by the Judiciary Committee earlier this week, is nothing if not ambitious. The commission would study sweeping changes to the […]
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Douglas Rooks: Toll from Supreme Court’s abortion decision keeps rising
Justice Samuel Alito is apparently not done yet. After overruling the two-generations-old precedent established by Roe v. Wade, demolishing it in his Dobbs v. Women’s Health Organization opinion last year, Alito is undeterred by the national turmoil he’s created. Toward the end of this year’s term, he’s striving to increase it. The Dobbs decision reversed a […]
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Douglas Rooks: Jurors in CMP corridor case succeeded where many others failed
Going forward, we need to collectively make better decisions about creating a survivable future.
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Douglas Rooks: Bridges can unite communities, if we let them
The dispute over the Frank J. Wood Bridge between Topsham and Brunswick didn’t have to go this far.
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Douglas Rooks: Budgeting the majority way, like everyone else
Maine should retire a gimmick that only makes forming a state budget more difficult.
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Douglas Rooks: To get past Trump spectacle, first, we must disenthrall ourselves
Sen. Susan Collins’s already famous response to Donald Trump’s indictment — “I don’t know what to make of it” — speaks for many, especially the news media. Despite the incessant chatter about the 2024 presidential race — who’s in, who’s out, who’s ahead, what the hourly polls say — the way forward seems cloudy, if […]
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Douglas Rooks: Post Office still stuck in neutral
There’s no reason we can’t have excellent mail and package delivery together, not one or the other.
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Douglas Rooks: For Gov. Mills, an invitation to dance with the Maine tribes
There is a way forward for the governor if she wants to show she can collaborate with the Wabanaki.