Cal Thomas: Trump should follow LBJ’s example

A Trump withdrawal from the 2024 race would open up the field to candidates with less, or little, political and personal baggage and help voters to focus more on important issues than Trump’s caustic personality.

Editorial cartoon for Wednesday, March 22

Rich Lowry: Alvin Bragg prepares to cross the Rubicon

All signs point to Bragg, the progressive prosecutor in Manhattan, indicting Donald Trump for his 2016 hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels.

Robert Stone: Power corridor economically, environmentally good for Maine

With our energy bills so high right now, I hope voters will take a fresh look at the New England Clean Energy Connect. The benefits of the project are twofold. Not only would it help reduce energy costs because it would provide us with another option for the New England grid, it would also help keep our […]

Paul and Angela Murphy: Resistance to Franco Center’s name change is well placed

It must be abundantly clear to the proponents of the name change for the Franco American Heritage Center that the change to Riverfront will not succeed. The resistance to this change is overwhelmingly united in its opposition, which is well placed. The Franco Center has been a living monument to Lewiston-Auburn’s proud French heritage. The […]

Deanne Danforth: FOX News wily, deceptive, true to its name

In 2022, University of California at Berkeley got hundreds of FOX News and CNN viewers to participate in a study examining the effects of viewing Fox News programming on a regular basis. FOX’s fake, phony news makes its viewers less informed about science, social issues and politics than those who watch no news at all. […]

Jennifer Charboneau: Franco Center’s traditional name reflects family

I wonder how select members of the Franco American Heritage Center board would feel if their family had a vision. A vision of creating a business, whether it be a market, bottle redemption and beverage warehouse or laundromat. Their family worked tirelessly to raise money to build this business and spent years making it better […]

Maura Murphy: Franco Center demonstrates importance of names

In these times of sensitivity to matters of identity and culture, how can it be that the ultra-generic name “Riverfront” honors the meaning and significance of the gifts Franco Americans have given to Lewiston and the wider world better than “The Franco Center” does? While it has been argued that names are not important, anyone […]

In rebuttal: Edmund Lewis: ‘CMP is not the enemy’

I write in reply to a letter by John Neal of Greene (“Our Power initiative deserves Mainers’ support,” March 11). John’s letter condemns Central Maine Power for its recent “egregious and painful” rate hike. I feel it is necessary to disagree and point out to Mr. Neal and many other fellow Maine CMP customers that […]

Editorial cartoon for Tuesday, March 21