As a Maine state representative, I oppose the confirmation of Judge Brett Kavanaugh because placing him on the U.S. Supreme Court threatens the access of American women to safe, affordable abortions. It is simply not enough, as U.S. Sen. Susan Collins has indicated, that the appointee affirms that Roe v. Wade is “settled law.” Since […]

Those who are paying attention are growing really tired of Edgar Allen Beem’s ongoing soap opera. His episodes of “Trumps Of Our Lies” is getting old, stale and downright embarrassing. His attempts to cover up and ignore reality, in the face of the millions of people’s lives that are getting better every day, are failing. […]

Early reaction from citizens regarding the Scarborough Downs TIF proposal has been less than enthusiastic because citizens are suspicious about the fast pace at which the town is trying to ram this through. At the TIF workshop with the Town Council last Wednesday, Rocco Risbara highlighted the long history his family has in the town. […]

As a long-time visitor to Maine from Minnesota, I was pleased to read Edgar Allen Beem’s opinion piece in your Aug. 15-17 editions (“Blame the GOP”). Please heed his clarion call: the GOP and their president are hypnotizing some of the electorate to abandon our hard-won democracy, moral compass, and ability to discern fact from […]

I am pleased to learn that Linwood Higgins is running in Scarborough’s state House District 28. Lin has been enthusiastically involved in the Scarborough Memorial Golf Tournament since its inception a number of years ago. Through his leadership and guidance skills, he has influenced my chairmanship of the event to be efficient and motivated, which […]

In addition to your stock photo of Edgar Allen Beem, you might want to have another picturing him with his hair on fire for those times when he pens another rant against the GOP. In last week’s column, Edgar seems to have lost all rationality when he railed against his perceived sins of the GOP. […]

Political candidates are sometimes unfairly attacked. They can be muddling along on the campaign trail, shaking hands and kissing babies, when suddenly a QAnon weirdo accuses them of colluding with Martians. This isn’t such an occasion. In the examples cited below, two very different contenders for high public office in Maine decided, for reasons that […]

In one of the most blatantly hypocritical guest editorials ever printed in a Portland newspaper, an analyst for the Maine Heritage Policy Center last week complained that outside groups are funding citizen initiatives in Maine. This from a conservative political organization that is largely funded by outside groups. “Maine’s ballot initiative system,” claimed the Maine […]

School starts soon. If you are a parent, a teacher, or in any way involved in caring for, or about, a young person, this is not news. And yet, it always seems to catch me by surprise. I am not ready. How it is that, once again, I have failed to make the most of […]

The proposal in Portland to extend voting rights to noncitizens is the craziest yet to come out of Maine’s most liberal city. The City Council has thankfully tabled the plan, but knowing Portland, it’s probably just a matter of time before the council capitulates to extreme left-leaning forces and resurrects the proposal once the current […]