Airline flight cancellations are beyond belief frustrating, but even worse is when the results of the mess include missing graduations, weddings and important meetings. These important appointments cannot be rescheduled or postponed. In a price-gouging scam, when the flights are canceled, the airlines offer travel credits rather than refunds. In fact, the money spent to […]

The U.S. Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision handed down Tuesday in Carson v. Makin is not a surprise: It struck down a 1981 law that limited “school choice” funding to secular schools. Its immediate effect will be limited; Maine has an unusual “school choice” system in which towns with no schools – there are many in […]

As the Congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U. S. Capitol heads into its final public hearings phase, early indications are that – despite compelling testimony – the needle on the public opinion meter has barely budged, and the impact on the congressional midterm elections as well as the 2024 presidential […]

The first real possibility for federal firearms legislation in decades has been sketched out by a bipartisan group of senators. It comes in the wake of the May 23, 2022, school shooting in Uvalde, Texas, in which an 18-year-old gunman killed 19 children and two teachers before himself being killed in a gunfire exchange with […]

It’s not uncommon for Pennsylvania’s 253-member General Assembly to shower deserved praise on active and retired members of the U.S, Armed Services, or to solemnly honor those who have fallen in the line of duty. But when state lawmakers here were given a real opportunity to help service members and veterans recently, they flubbed it […]

I watched one of my favorite movies the other night, “Quo Vadis.” Despite the cheesy costumes and over the top acting, it has important historical value, in that it describes a critical but faded episode of inhumanity: The persecution of Christians. We know about it, we have some vague memories of the people who had […]

A few days ago, my wife and I joined some friends for a gathering during a few rare hours when we weren’t busy hauling a teenager to some kind of expensive activity or hosting an entire herd of them at our home to ransack our pantry and abuse the plumbing. The highlight of the get-together […]

The fascist threat at the top, so well documented by the Jan. 6 Committee, is rightfully seizing our attention. But it’s also happening from the bottom up. Case in point: Nevada nutcase Jim Marchant. In Nevada’s Republican primary, he became the cult’s candidate to be secretary of state – the election overseer in that narrowly […]

The good news is that homelessness is a solvable problem. The bad news is that more people are experiencing homelessness. Covid 19 and its residual impact worsened the housing crisis experienced by many Mainers. The Point In Time (PIT) Survey published annually by Maine Housing looks at the number of people experiencing homelessness on a […]

January 6 hearings reveal true nature of political split