Three hundred thirty United States coal plants have, thankfully, closed, with more to come.  Mainers should celebrate that, as pollution from burning coal has worsened lung diseases here for decades.  But using a law called the Defense Production Act, President Trump and his Energy Department have just repurposed the money Congress originally passed to clean […]

During the past week Donald Trump continued his unauthorized war on Iran, proposed a nearly $2 billion slush fund for his cronies and urged the Senate to give him $70 billion so ICE can evict a million more immigrants, the great majority of whom have committed no crime. Mainers should be outraged. Meanwhile, he and […]