Andrew Kirtzman explains how America’s Mayor became a nonsense-peddling Trump loyalist.
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Posted inNation & World, News, Politics
Trump and DeSantis: Once allies, now in simmering rivalry with 2024 nearing
DeSantis has cast himself as a combative conservative in Trump’s mold, denouncing the media and the political establishment.
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Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: The quest to move party politics Forward will require other parties
In America, third-party efforts tend to be viewed with suspicion. What would help their credibility? More and different efforts.
Posted inMaine
Portland estimates cost of charter proposals and citizen initiatives at over $6.5 million
A fiscal impact note prepared by city staff puts cost of the charter commission proposals at $1 million and the citizen initiatives at more than $5.5 million.
Posted inMaine, News, Politics
Mainers attracted by Oath Keepers’ vision, repulsed by its extremism
A recently released list of the violent, anti-government group’s membership rolls dates to 2009, casting doubt on how many of the 215 Mainers who were listed remain active in the group.
Posted inElections, Local Elections, Maine, Politics
With Kate Snyder stepping aside, who will run for Portland mayor?
The election is still more than a year away and some potential candidates, including former Mayor Ethan Strimling and school board Chair Emily Figdor, said that right now they’re focused on other work.
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Virginia governor’s plan to join Paul LePage in Lewiston draws heat from Democrats
Republicans holding major fundraiser next week featuring possible presidential candidate Gov. Glenn Youngkin.
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Gordon Weil: America’s culture of political violence
Ballots, not bullets. A government of laws, not men. When politicians talk about the nation’s shared values, that’s part of what they mean – a non-violent, lawful, democratic system of government. What we really get is something much different. Four presidents assassinated plus 15 threatened. Historic assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King. Threats […]
Posted inMaine, News
‘Enough is Enough’ campaign launches to fight all 14 Portland referendum questions
Former city councilor Nick Mavodones, one of the group’s leaders, says ‘trying to govern the city through referendum I think is a bad idea.’
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: My search for balance in unbalanced times
Increasingly, I think I will opt for detachment by simply sitting out whatever comes next.