Abortion could be a losing issue for both sides in Maine politics – but for very different reasons. For Democrats, the voters who are now more ardent about supporting pro-choice candidates in…
Let’s suppose a pollster paid by a government agency showed up on your doorstep and asked you if you were committing any illegal acts. Whether you were or not, you’d almost certainly…
If you wanted to make the University of Maine System look open, honest and forthcoming, you could compare it to the Maine State Police. UMS is a banana republic overseen by a…
Sam Hunkler seems to live in a fantasy world. Hunkler is a semi-retired physician from Beals, a small town in Washington County. I’m sure it’s a pleasant enough place, but that’s not…
Is Bruce Poliquin, the former two-term congressman in Maine’s 2nd District, a far-right kook? A traditional conservative? A Republican in name only, secretly harboring centrist views? Based on comments Poliquin has made…
The controversial video produced for the Maine Department of Education that’s supposed to teach elementary-school kids about LGBTQ+ issues is dangerous. It might bore those poor little suckers to death. Teaching young…
It’s tough to write Democratic state Rep. John Martin’s obituary. Mostly because it’s tough to tell if he’s really dead. During a career in Maine politics that’s lasted more than a half-century,…
The average Maine citizen neither knows nor cares who their state representative is. Or their state senator. And they know more about the latest Dr. Strange movie than they do about their…
Let the constitutional clown show begin. Last November, the Maine electorate, demonstrating the same deep grasp of legal and political implications typically found in rabid coyotes, overwhelmingly approved a constitutional amendment granting…
I’m not saying Gov. Janet Mills employs a team of goons who drag her political opponents into a secret chamber in the State House and beat the crap out of them. I’m…