I wholeheartedly agree with the premise of John V. Lesko’s June 28 Maine Voices. He’s right. “We won’t fix our problems if we can’t first fix democracy.” It, our democracy, is broken, and here’s why. Government by and for the people has important essential underlying assumptions. • All eligible people must have access to the […]

I am a member of the union bargaining team representing the nurses at Maine Medical Center. We have been bargaining for a year with Maine Medical Center, and we are close to finalizing our historic first union contract. We have already won agreement on many provisions to improve patient safety and our own working conditions. […]

The Grand Old Party is no longer the Republican Party. Too many of them have joined the party of Trumpism, where lying is acceptable and power and money are all that matter. Forget ethics, forget loyalty, forget caring about the people you were elected to serve. They are obstructionists who want to make President Biden […]

Re: “Legal obstacles could sink Bar Harbor’s initiative to limit cruise ship passengers” (July 27, Page A1): Portland’s liberal activists now want to limit the number of cruise ship visits and the number of people who can get off these ships. Look at the tens of thousands of dollars these people spend. It harkens back […]

Last February, I contributed a small sum to a major-party candidate for the 2022 midterm elections here in Maine. Boy, talk about unintended consequences! Since then, I have received 10 to 20 emails per day (17 yesterday) exhorting me to contribute to other candidates of that party. Most of these are not even from Maine […]

The Supreme Court worships originalism now, and the court is making bad decisions. Originalism isn’t bad. It simply states that the Constitution should be interpreted literally and as the Founders intended. While the concept sounds reasonable, originalism should not be the only determining factor in legal decisions. The law is too complex. Take murder, for […]