bernie sanders

Published
January 1, 2020

Scarborough teachers’ contract dispute gets national visibility via Bernie Sanders tweet

The Democratic presidential candidate supports the local and state teachers' unions.
Published
December 31, 2019

Sanders vows to enact national standards for ‘forever’ chemicals in water

Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders said companies should be paying to clean up contamination.
Published
December 28, 2019

Commentary: What makes the Iowa caucuses so complicated?

The organizational requirements, the high turnout, the money spent and on hand – all of these keep things interesting.
Published
December 13, 2019

Two Somali politicians find inspiration in each other’s success

Controversial U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, talked Friday with incoming Lewiston City Council member Safiya Khalid after a political rally in New Hampshire.
Published
December 2, 2019

Sanders turns in signatures for Maine presidential primary in March

The presidential campaign of Bernie Sanders announced Monday that it had submitted 2,800 signatures of Maine voters to put the Vermont senator on the Democratic primary ballot in Maine.
Published
November 15, 2019

Commentary: Trump’s economy complicates Democratic candidates’ message

The states with early primaries are doing well, but the battleground states are not.
Published
October 17, 2019

Dana Milbank: Democrats flip the script on a cut-and-run president

During Tuesday’s debate, they sounded very much like Republicans of yore in denouncing Trump for jeopardizing national security.
Published
October 13, 2019

Insight: America’s greedy millionaires and billionaires

The Trump tax cuts helped the people who needed it least. And they are still begging for more.
Published
October 4, 2019

Bernie Sanders’ campaign confirms that he suffered a heart attack

Statements from Sanders and his doctors don't indicate whether his heart suffered any permanent damage.
Published
September 29, 2019

Jim Fossel: 2020 Democratic candidates pushing top-down reform

Leading contenders for the presidency are calling for national projects that would interfere with state and local prerogatives.