Washington Post sports columnist Sally Jenkins’ commentary on the U.S. Olympic Committee in Tuesday’s Press Herald (“Time has come to knock down USOC,” Page D4) was a gold medal performance. You can see it on the Press Herald’s website if you missed it. She shows, again, that when an institution and its well-paid toadies – […]

Last Saturday’s front-page report about the settlement of a Medicare fraud case against North East Mobile Health Services and Maine Medical Center was disappointing in two respects. The U.S. attorney brought suit under the False Claims Act against the ambulance company and Maine Med for defrauding Medicare by providing inaccurate information about the medical conditions […]

Gary Foster (“Letter to the editor: Gun ownership not cause of society’s ills,” Feb. 22) ascribes the increase in mass shootings (which, according to the Gun Violence Archive, occur on nine out of every 10 days on average in the United States) on societal ills. Among these, he writes, is “the decline of Christian principles.” […]

In the run-up to the tax bill vote in December, Sen. Susan Collins stated that it would be a mistake to vote for the tax bill without first stabilizing the health care marketplace. Then she voted in favor of the tax bill without first ensuring that the health care marketplace was stabilized. When she failed […]

The parent company of Bath Iron Works – General Dynamics – is one of the largest contractors, reaping billions in profits every year for its shareholders by satisfying the Department of Defense’s insatiable appetite for military hardware, futile wars, nuclear weapons and the Navy’s imagined need for 46 more ships (got to figure out some […]

In 1965, the Voting Rights Act was passed, prohibiting racial discrimination in voting. An extension of the act – the 26th Amendment giving 18-year-olds the right to vote – was ratified in 1971. It is not lost on me that these two landmark decisions came about, in large part, because young people spoke out forcefully […]