Owning the restaurant in front of the Cumberland County Courthouse for 30 years, I get a good pulse on how great a job our DA Jonathan Sahrback is doing. His ADA’S love him – he kept up morale there through two plus years of COVID when no one was allowed into the building. I feed […]

I have a different take on why the “Freedom Holidays” LGBTQ video for kindergarteners is inappropriate and that is because it is incorrect. When a baby is born, doctors assign a sex to the baby, never a gender. We don’t say, as heard in the video, “we think your child is a female or we […]

Study one of the easily available photos of the deep, visceral heartbreak of parents of a child murdered in Uvalde, Texas. Do you think the owner of a semiautomatic rifle would feel the same unspeakable grief if their gun was permanently taken away? Consider that the husband of one of the murdered teachers died of […]

I am voting for Jackie Sartoris in the June 14 Democratic primary for Cumberland County district attorney, and I hope others will, too. Here are three reasons for that vote: First, Jackie is a lifelong Democrat and has worked for Democrats in Brunswick and in Maine for as long as I can remember – which […]

Victoria Hugo-Vidal’s column of May 29 correctly points out that the Maine Republican Party is using bully tactics in its ads regarding Department of Education videos about the LGBTQ community. It’s easy to see that they are looking to distract public attention from the effective leadership Gov. Mills has displayed on the economy, the state […]

One of the key findings of the “9/11 Commission Report” was that there was a failure of imagination – not seeing the possibility of passenger planes being used as weapons. We seem to be similarly unimaginative in our attempts to prevent mass shootings. What if we brushed aside how unrealistic and maybe even laughable this […]