David Durell is the Democratic candidate for District 16 of the Maine House of Representatives, which covers Hollis and parts of Buxton and Saco. Dave is a native Mainer and a graduate of the University of Maine, who ran a small business in Buxton for almost 30 years. He knows what it is like to […]

American voters across the political spectrum often say that they wish the country had more centrist politicians who are willing to debate and compromise in the interest of achieving mutually desirable goals. We have one, one of the few, in Maine’s Susan Collins. Some letter writers object to her re-election because, as a Republican senator, […]

The only reason Susan Collins has an approval rate in the 30s is older generations’ leftover goodwill from her first 20 years in office. Like many young people, I came into real political consciousness with the 2016 presidential election. At no point since then has Susan Collins done anything to earn the youth vote. Young […]

The website Open Secrets provides a telling review of who is pulling the strings of power that suspend Sen. Susan Collins. Two of the top five donors over the past five years are major hedge funds with strong, politically active leaders. Did you wonder why Susan Collins threw her support behind the Republican-sponsored tax bill […]

Columnist Jim Fossel’s “Democrats fail leadership test in Augusta” (Aug. 2) fails the test of reasonableness. He claims, without substantiation, that many bills that might be considered in a special session would be “completely ridiculous and unnecessary in normal times” and that even debating them during the pandemic would be “absurd.” I wonder which bills […]

When I met Susan Collins, in October 2016, I was excited to speak with one of America’s well-known moderate senators. Instead, I was struck by her refusal to directly answer my policy questions. Over the last few years, I have become very disheartened, as I have witnessed Sen. Collins let the people of Maine down. […]

Having Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler visit Portland to talk about protecting the environment is like having David Duke visit to talk about racial justice (“Lobstermen catch break on diesel engine standards,” Aug. 20). After Wheeler demolished long-standing protections for clean water and clean air, and rolled back regulation of methane emissions and automobile […]

Maine Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, who both serve on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, recently joined in the bipartisan release of the final report from the three-year investigation chaired and run by Senate Republicans on Russian interference in our 2016 election. The New York Times, on Aug. 18, detailed President Trump’s communications […]