For years, Maine’s disabled public service retirees faced a punitive and outdated policy: the MainePERS Social Security Disability offset. This offset allowed MainePERS to profit with full employee and employer contributions while paying reduced benefits for a tiny subset — those whose public service job paid into both MainePERS and Social Security and are receiving […]

I suggest that Democrat leaders all over the country create a united, positive vision for the Democratic Party and create it sooner than later. In 2025, Donald Trump hammered home his vision that Democrats, so-called elites and wokes, were the “deep state” weaponizing against him. It worked and helped him win in 2024. Democrats all […]

I find it interesting that many of the people who want to limit the number of people who vote (i.e., upcoming Maine voter ID referendum) also want to increase the number of people detained and deported. The word “arrested” would be inappropriate; that would require a warrant and due process. Maybe kidnapping is closer to […]