Bob Neal: The Countryman: What do we do about after high school?

One thing seems certain. The post-secondary years will be different, whether grads are going straight to work or to career training or higher education. This may be an opportunity for Maine to grab the initiative and start designing the post-secondary world of tomorrow.

Froma Harrop: Politics and the Michigan mass shooting

Although mass killings have become commonplace — the one at Michigan State University was the 67th this year, and we’re only in February — something feels different this time.

Clarence Page: What doesn’t MAGA know about the ‘Black national anthem’? A lot

I have always sung it and heard it the way my schoolteacher grandmother taught it, not just as a vehicle for us to sing the blues about our suffering and victimization as a people, but as a rallying cry to our resilience and determination.

Editorial cartoon for Friday, Feb. 17

Rich Lowry: Biden vs. the UFOs

As far as know, we have nothing to fear from little green men. It’s the hostile civilization on the other side of the planet that we have to worry about, and balloons are the least of it.

Editorial cartoon for Thursday, Feb. 16

In rebuttal: Rudolph Ziehm: In search of ‘any middle left’ in American politics

I wonder if there is any middle left in American politics. The Sun Journal on Feb. 10 had three letters. In the first (“Capitalism won’t fix world’s greatest problems“), William Whitney says capitalism can’t be successful in today’s world. Wrong. With all its warts, it is the only system that does work (see pure socialism’s […]

Diana O’Brien: Maine lawmakers should oppose late-term abortions

Abortion was made legal in 1973 through Roe v. Wade so that women could be safe. In 2020, in Maine, 2,370 babies lost their lives through abortion. There is now a bill legislators are trying to pass, to make it OK to abort a full-term child, with the approval of a qualified medical professional. This […]

Rep. Michel Lajoie: Direct relief checks will provide immediate help for Mainers

Maine Revenue Services has begun mailing the first wave of $450 winter energy relief checks to an estimated 880,000 eligible Maine residents as part of LD 3, which the Legislature enacted with bipartisan support in January. This critical legislation is providing immediate support for many Lewiston residents who are struggling to heat their homes due […]

Cal Thomas: Looking up, looking down

Beijing’s aggressive agenda must be opposed, or the threat will spread to the point we might not be able to deter them. Backing measures to keep China from buying up American land is a good place to start, even while monitoring the skies for more balloons.