Gil Steward: Column sent clear message about silent police radios

I get what Mark LaFlamme is saying with the Lewiston-Auburn police and the scanners going silent on us (“Lewiston-Auburn police radios remain silent — for us,” Dec. 21). My wife and I are retired and often did listen but, like he said, the Lewiston/Auburn police have been quiet the last year and a half, after […]

Tom Putnam: Hearing my father’s voice in the carols of Christmas past 

Our family singalongs are not the same without my dad’s presence, and our holiday traditions have changed over time. But in the privacy of our homes and the recesses of our minds, those familiar Yuletide carols continue to evoke his spirit.

Austin Bay: Putin’s latest bad bet: Strategic bombing

Vladimir Putin bets cold, hungry and bombing-terrorized Ukrainians will surrender, even if the British, Germans, Japanese, Ethiopians, et al. did not.

Froma Harrop: TikTok needs to leave these shores

TikTok’s role in torching so many American brain cells would seem reason enough to get rid of it. But that’s not why national security experts and politicians of both parties want it banned in the United States.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: No heroes in this saga

Immigration is both our triumph and, of late, our tragedy.

Cal Thomas: The false god of politics

The Christmas season offers an annual opportunity to push the reset button and consider a better way, a way that will demonstrably produce results that politics cannot.

Editorial cartoon for Saturday, Dec. 24

Froma Harrop: DeSantis Passes the Kool-Aid … to Republicans

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has earned some recent notoriety for casting doubt on the COVID-19 vaccines and attacking the experts who happen to know about them.

Rich Lowry: How a Russian composer took over American Christmas

Between the “1812 Overture” and “The Nutcracker,” Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky has a big hand in celebrations of American holidays — the overture captures and exemplifies the thunderous spirit of national celebration of July 4, and “The Nutcracker” the child-centric magic and joy of the American Christmas.

Editorial cartoon for Friday, Dec. 23