Donald Trump got within striking distance of the White House — or, more precisely, Comey-and- Putin range — thanks to overwhelming support from white working-class voters. These voters trusted his promise to bring back good manufacturing jobs while disbelieving his much more credible promise to take away their health care. They have a rude shock […]

I didn’t know the young man well — I’d hired him to do some handyman work around my house — but it was awfully unpleasant to learn that he died at 24 with a needle in his arm. It was a bad batch of heroin. The statistics will tell you he was one of the […]

Maine ‘Open For Business’? Not so fast I recently read that Norway’s Statoil company will be building an offshore windfarm near New York City. This is the same company that was driven out of Maine in 2013 when Gov. LePage pushed for tearing up a negotiated contract and lost $120 million in investment. Gov. LePage […]

In 1831, naturalist Charles Darwin set out on a round-the-world voyage aboard the HMS Beagle. In 1927, the musical play “Show Boat,” with music by Jerome Kern and libretto by Oscar Hammerstein II, opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York. In 1932, New York City’s Radio City Music Hall first opened. In 1945, the […]