It’s not hard to agree with James Deyermond (“After State of the Union, Maine is faced with a choice,” March 1) that fraud should be rooted out from government expenditures wherever it occurs. Perhaps there is some fraud in Medicaid payments in Maine. What I find troubling is that Mr. Deyermond, as chairman of the […]

It’s easy for the president to say, casually and callously, that “American lives will be lost” when it isn’t a member of his family whose life is on the line — for an unauthorized war with no clear plan forward, or logical rationale.  My son, who is in the U.S. Navy and right in the […]

Trust is not something that can be flown in from D.C.

How the latest war began. President Trump: Ho hum, I feel kind of bored today and kind of, I don’t know … uneasy. There’s something on my mind, but it’s not that matter that begins with an “E” and ends with an “ein.” I never think about that. Anyway, just for the heck of it, I […]