On June 1, 1950, Sen. Margaret Chase Smith delivered her famous Declaration of Conscience denouncing the shameful and deliberately untruthful tactics of Sen. Joe McCarthy. In her speech, she called on other Republicans to join her in denouncing the lies and wrongful accusations lobbed by McCarthy. She rose to the occasion and her stance demonstrated […]

Thank you to Cape Elizabeth Town Clerk Deb Lane and her team of employees and volunteers on a well-run election. This was Deb’s eighth presidential election! I know I speak for many in saying how much we appreciate a job well done. And we are lucky indeed that all across Maine, there are hundreds of […]

Thanks to Anja Hanson for her heartfelt column about this summer’s Portland Adult Education students and their parking lot graduation (“Maine Voices: Recent Portland Adult Education graduate a role model as we hurry up and wait,” Nov. 3). I was there as the tutor of a woman I’ve had the honor of knowing for many […]

If Sens. Susan Collins and Mitt Romney really care about governing to address our country’s problems, they would make deals to caucus with the Democrats. Their votes would give the Democrats Senate control. In exchange they could extract promises not to pack the Supreme Court; not to add states; not to scrimp on contracts sent […]

There was an apolitical emotion in play which, I believe, partially explains Susan Collins’ victory. Everyone knew someone like Sara Gideon in high school and they didn’t like them then, either. Seemingly sweet and lovely on the outside, vicious on the inside. Ms. Gideon’s campaign ads brought forth this buried recollection in many voters. The […]

As the old Scottish poem says, the best-laid plans often go astray. That’s exactly what happened to the Democrat Party here in Maine on Election Day. The party had what they thought was the plan to unseat Susan Collins. They poured in millions of dollars in out-of-state money to lead a dirty ad campaign that […]

Marc A. Thiessen’s syndicated column has become an insult to its readers. Last week’s right-wing diatribe is a mockery of the truth (“With the sound off, Trump is a great conservative president,” Page A13, Oct. 30). He rambles on (Donald Trump style) about how great a conservative president he is to support his thesis: “Trump’s […]

Ruth Bader Ginsburg spent her life on the Supreme Court working for women’s rights. Donald Trump wasted no time in nominating Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court to take her place, someone expected to vote to repeal Roe v. Wade. It is well known that conservative religions agreed to support Trump’s re-election for his […]