Maine Democrats will not move from a bad position. They are holding true to the sunk-cost fallacy. Testimony was given for the Legislature to enact “An Act to Designate School Sports Participation and Facilities by Sex” without a vote of the people in November, which it did not. The proponents of the measure spoke kindly […]

Rep. Jared Golden has once again passed on an opportunity to rein in the Trump administration, voting against the War Powers Resolution. Golden claims that Trump is well within his presidential authority to initiate a war with Iran. I would suggest that Congress is well within its powers to require the president to explain the […]

“No person in the United States shall, on bias of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal assistance …” Those words, written and passed into law by the United States Congress in June 1972, are the foundations of […]

Good for Graham Platner for saying “I’m sorry.” We need people in Washington, D.C., who can say “I’m sorry.” Every week, Platner is on the front page saying “I’m sorry” for something he said yesterday or eight years ago: about the glories of combat, the weakness of women, the sad state of disabled people; we […]

On reading Randy Billings’ April 3 article (“Platner re-ups criticism of Collins for Iraq vote,”) an illustrated poem from childhood — “The Land of Counterplane” by Robert Louis Stevenson — came to mind; it spoke of a sick boy, in bed, marching little toy soldiers across his bed sheets to amuse himself. Youngsters of many […]

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this war Trump started is costing us $1 billion a day. Where is all of this money coming from? We are told that Social Security will run out of funds in 2032. Every day, Americans die because they can’t afford insurance, 48 million American families live in poverty, 1 […]

This is just another way to colonize Maine.