Why is President Trump willing to pay almost $1 billion of our tax money to increase our utility bills? That is essentially what Trump did when he agreed to pay the French company TotalEnergies $928 million to cancel the leases it already had signed for wind farms in the waters off New York and North […]

Let’s step away from the stepped-up basis.

June 5, 2026, marked 45 years since the first case of HIV was reported. In the early 1980s, a diagnosis was confusing and frightening because the condition was not well understood. As a person who had gotten sick with pneumocystis pneumonia in early 1982, I was told to go home and get my affairs in order. I was given the diagnosis […]

Most Americans have never heard of Section 224 of the House version of the 2027 National Defense Authorization Act. That should concern us. Buried within this massive defense bill is the U.S.-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative, a provision that critics say would move the U.S.-Israel relationship beyond military aid and toward deeper military-industrial integration through […]

The world as we know it today was built on the back of burning fossil fuels. Unfortunately, this process has come at a tremendous cost. Emissions from burning fossil fuels are rapidly warming our world at a rate that has never occurred in the history of our planet. Why, then, do we continue to burn planet-killing fossil […]

When visiting Washington, D.C., I would feel reverence and awe while driving by and visiting the White House and grounds. They embody years of challenges and stand as a testament to our history and to our future.   Things have changed with Trump in residence. Jackie Kennedy’s Rose Garden has been transformed into a restaurant patio. The […]

Our Constitution was designed to withstand pressure, but it was never meant to rely on the honor system. The last several years have shown how easily a determined president can test, stretch or ignore the boundaries meant to protect the public. When a president behaves as if political limits no longer apply, it exposes how […]

I’m going to try to not bury the lead here: the Democrats are disingenuous and deceitful.  This election season we’ve heard a lot of talk about affordability. Yet one of the most deserving and hard-working groups — tipped workers — still pay Maine taxes on tips because Maine has not conformed its income tax code […]