Critics and Congressional opponents of the American Recovery Plan (including two of Maine’s four-person delegation) apparently claim the included 2021 stimulus checks of $1,400 are too large, not related/targeted to the pandemic, and/or are not “targeted” to those who will use it “best.” Presumably, they feel they know better who exactly ought to be getting […]

In this, the second of a three-part article, I address more ways the nation’s original sin of slavery has endured over the years and continues to this day. In “How the GI Bill’s Promise was Denied to a Million Black WWII Veterans,” Erin Blakeman wrote, “When lawmakers began drafting the GI Bill in 1944, some […]

President Biden’s coronavirus economic stimulus bill passed Congress on a straight party vote. Almost. All of the Republicans in the House and Senate voted against it. All of the Democrats voted for it, except one. That was Jared Golden, the member of Congress from Maine’s Second District. His vote raises the historical question of the […]

“As Maine goes, so goes the nation” was Maine’s mantra for being a bellwether state for predicting the outcome of Presidential Elections early in our country’s history. It went beyond picking our president to how we conduct elections. While we all may want to forget about the 2020 election cycle, there are some very real […]

Maine’s municipal revenue sharing program is in bad shape. Former Gov. Paul LePage tried to get rid of it, and succeeded in reducing it to just 40% of its original size as part of his unrelenting drive to cut state spending. While little known to the public, revenue sharing has an interesting history. It’s considered […]