Gov. LePage’s attempt to publicly browbeat long-serving Maine Supreme Judicial Court Justice Joseph Jabar into early retirement with one of his standard-issue nastygrams threatens the foundation of our democracy. Maine is lucky to have an independent judiciary. Our judges are appointed, not elected. Detached from day-to-day political pressures, they are not required to curry favors, […]

So we thought Shawn Moody would be one of the smarter candidates for governor, but then he came out with this fire extinguishers-versus-guns thing (“Candidate for governor calls fire extinguishers a ‘great deterrent’ to school shooters,” March 6), and we have to reconsider. Maybe he could demonstrate for us how that would work – sprint […]