I recently learned that New Mexico has established a trust, modeled after Norway’s national sovereign fund, to provide free, universal child care. In both settings, royalties from natural resource extractions provide the funding.    Imagine if recently acquired tariff revenues were allocated to an American sovereign fund with similar purpose. Without the financial burden of child care, […]

I am 79 years old. Currently I: I don’t get recruited to boards because I’m rich (Social Security is our big paycheck). I am valued because I know how to make things work — a talent that has apparently increased as I have aged. I don’t suspect that there are many Mainers of any age […]

“Quiet, piggy!” Really? With fewer quiet senators, would there have been a “Quiet, piggy!”? Possibly. But it probably wouldn’t have been hissed at a journalist just doing her job on Air Force One. Sen. Susan Collins’ irresponsible silence is her vote of support for such outrages. Calculated, cowardly, quiet in the face of the escalating […]