Gun control is one of those issues, like abortion, about which people tend to want all or nothing, when what is really needed are reasonable limitations. Recently, for instance, in a display of double-barreled Republican firepower, state Sen. Eric Brakey of Auburn and our pistol-packing Gov. Paul LePage teamed up to try to get rid […]

I wonder what would happen to me (or any Republican) if I lamented, either out loud or in print, that with regard to any Democratic leader “in some countries assassination is a political strategy, but unfortunately not here.” And what if I tried to lie about it? Then tried to say it was only a […]

In the wind-down of legislative sessions, Maine Democrats’ recent track record is awful. They’ve continually settled for tax measures that inevitably shrink state revenues and make budget cuts necessary to essential programs. They haggled so long over the mechanics of paying hospital debt that it looked like Gov. Paul LePage alone favored taking this sensible […]

Edgar Allen Beem is to be congratulated for his candor in advocating Bernie Sanders’ presidential bid. (“The case for Bernie Sanders,” May 7) Deriding most of the other aspirants, Beem is nothing if not realistic in acknowledging the odds Sanders faces as an avowed socialist. Many readers may view Beem’s attention to whether the “s” […]