Alvin Orne: Let school boards weigh in on LGBT rights without recall threat

I recently received a flier in the mail from the group Maine First Project. I don’t usually respond or comment on these types of things, but I feel a little differently about this one. It’s a notice for a vote to recall school board members due to the fact they support LGBT rights at the […]

Cal Thomas: China threat not only to Taiwan

While the U.S. has seemed fixated on China’s growing verbal threats and military maneuvers around Taiwan, Gen. Mark Milley and others, including some in Australia, are concerned that China’s expansionist goals do not end with attempts to take over that free island nation.

Editorial cartoon for Wednesday, Jan. 18

Dwight Mills: Fed up with ‘needless loss’ of habitat, wildlife

The constant human destruction of this planet is just amazing. Few countries are serious about climate problems. We are racing Russia and China to mine metals on the moon. We have thousands of jet planes flying people daily for frivolous reasons. Space tourism is about to get under way. On the Jan. 1 edition of […]

William Coffin: Attempting to ignore Lewiston charter isn’t good governance

At the Jan. 3 Lewiston City Council meeting, four members of the council attempted to ignore both the City Charter and more than 100 years of precedence in trying to prohibit the mayor from speaking on issues brought before the council unless he relinquished the gavel. Neither the City Charter nor past precedence call for […]

Editorial cartoon for Tuesday, Jan. 17

Cal Thomas: A minority view

Hawaii state Rep. Gene Ward thinks Republicans should focus on what’s best for the country, not a particular leader. “Whatever horse trading you’re doing, give it up. Ask what you can do for your country, not what you can get out of it. Don’t make a laughing stock out of the party and the majority we won.”

Austin Bay: Mexican crime cartels wage narcotic and demographic war on USA

An undefended U.S. border increases cartel profits and makes Mexico more vulnerable. Drugs, crime and social support costs sap the U.S. The demographic shifts present additional challenges.

Froma Harrop: The bros are sorry, so they say

When caught in the net, the bros go into their boyish shrug and frame their misdeeds as a these-things-happen excuse. They like to say, “I’m sor-ree,” as though they had accidentally stepped on the teacher’s foot.

Editorial cartoon for Sunday, Jan. 15