Nov. 7 marked one month since more than 200 innocent people were kidnapped in Israel and dragged underground by Hamas terrorists. These babies, toddlers, children, young girls, old men and women have generally not been heard from or seen since. We don’t know if they are dead or alive and can only imagine the horrors […]

If you were running a store plagued by shoplifters and I told you the way to stop this is to fire the store detective, you’d think I was nuts. Would someone please tell me how the House Republican attempts to defund the Internal Revenue Service’s ability to go after wealthy tax cheats represents a deficit […]

On the evening of Oct. 25, I thoroughly enjoyed a Channel 6 special celebrating the past 20 years of News Center Maine’s “207” program. It featured Maine’s unique character and characters, and it was very uplifting. At the same time, a lone gunman was destroying the lives of innocent Lewiston residents and inflicting panic and […]

For Second Amendment single-issue voters, a primary argument against a ban on assault weapons is a perceived slippery slope toward other weapons being banned. This is a false argument. Taking away weapons for sport, hunting or home protection has never been suggested. Conversely, has a clear, cogent rationale ever been offered for owning something designed […]

I visited Portland on a cruise on Oct. 9 and just wanted to say what a lovely city you have. While my wife went up the observatory (I could not, as I am in a wheel chair), a lovely lady from the cafe opposite the observatory and the fire station came over and wheeled me […]

As the fascination with assault rifles seem to dominate our collective imagination as “needed” weapons for whatever purpose, be it mass shootings or just “fun,” might we find compromise in a temporary solution to the too-easy access to these weapons? If one buys one of these weapons, it will be registered (after a full background […]

“Oh, that would never happen in Maine.” How many times have we heard that now obviously ridiculous statement? Now that no one can any longer make such a statement, what will it take for our state – and our country – to wake up and realize that we must enact sensible gun control laws, starting […]

In his commentary published last Sunday, Marc Champion painted a bucolic picture of Gaza that he visited two months ago, writing that “when an attack on Israel resulted in unimaginable grief for Gazans,” life as he knew it in Gaza was destroyed. (“Amid Israel-Hamas war, some still see a path to coexistence,” Nov. 5) He […]