About halfway through his marathon news conference last week, President Joe Biden finally asked the only question in Washington that’s worth asking. With congressional Republicans standing in the way of the Democrats’ every initiative, including voting rights (which should be as bipartisan as it gets), what do they actually support? “What are Republicans for? What […]

Bravo! I applaud the decision of the Bath City Council to approve the mask mandate. I know that this was difficult. It is hard, but important. It is one of the moves that will make a difference and we need to do all that we can so that at some point we can be done […]

I’ve got to hand it to the GOP and a couple of centrist Democrats – they certainly know how to misinterpret and misrepresent the message of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in an effort to promote their retrograde agendas. It never fails, almost like clockwork, some politician will echo (arrogantly and without shame) a select […]

“How cute. What’s his name?” I get that several times a day while walking our female Shih Tzu, Abigail. So it is in dog walking protocol: Everyone wants to know Abbie’s name, but no one ever asks mine. Though fewer people are sheltered at home these days, dog walking doesn’t seem to be waning in […]

In conversation this week with the White House press corps, on the eve of his one-year presidential anniversary, Joe Biden said: “One thing I haven’t been able to do so far is get my Republican friends to get in the game of making things better in this country… I did not anticipate that there’d be […]

For more than 60 years I have worked with the Wabanaki tribes in Maine as an ethnographer and historian. This gives me a perspective I hope you will find helpful on an extremely important issue that will be considered by the Legislature when it reconvenes in January — namely LD 1626, the tribal sovereignty bill. […]

While President Biden’s downward spiral in public approval continues, nervous Democrats have sought to reassure one another to remain calm, insisting there remains ample time for the administration to right the ship and bring the American people on board. Signs of desperation have crept onto the horizon, and none more politically fraught than rumors that […]

While browsing “1,000 Books to Read: A Life-Changing List,” by James Mustich, I came upon “Gone With the Wind,” by Margaret Mitchell. I’d seen the movie, which won several Academy Awards. The book had earned a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and sold over 30 million copies so I thought, “Why not?” I […]