Father Gary Drinkwater: ‘A Cry for Help’

“Oh what evil lurks in the hearts of men?” Words spoken long ago. I thought was just a saying then, But it came to be just so. A few days ago filled with fun Laughter filled the halls. Who knew what evil had begun Behind some dark dark walls. There were some suspecting trouble; Who […]

Cal Thomas: No fooling the voters

Democrats may be hoping that Donald Trump’s legal problems will tank his re-election prospects, but they may be betting on the wrong horse. Their focus on Trump becoming the GOP nominee and easy to defeat again ignores the perception among a majority of voters — including Democrats — that Joe Biden is weak and too old for a second term.

Editorial cartoon for Sunday, Nov. 19

Froma Harrop: Actually, Biden is ‘polling’ really well

Mainstream punditry continues to place enormous importance on that Times/Siena poll “finding” that Biden is in trouble. Both legal political prediction markets, PredictIt and Iowa, say it’s quite the contrary.

Clarence Page: Democrats ride abortion issue to victory while GOP struggles to navigate

In elections since last year’s Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, in which the Supreme Court overturned the nearly 50-year-old constitutional right to abortion, Democrats clearly turned their own outrage into a rallying cry — and votes.

Rich Lowry: Ta-Nehisi Coates is a moral idiot

As a high priest of woke progressivism, Coates was always going to be a fierce critic of Israel. He is a particularly instructive instance, though, of trying to take the Left’s racial categories here at home and apply them to a conflict with its own fraught dynamics established long ago.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: Truth and reconciliation, American style

Keeping with our American model of individualism, each of us can look into our own hearts and ask whether we have done enough to move toward racial justice.

Editorial cartoon for Saturday, Nov. 18

U-Haul services open in Monmouth

NORTH MONMOUTH — Gene’s Auto Repair & Sales signed on as a U-Haul neighborhood dealer to serve the North Monmouth community. The business at 1088 U.S. Route 202 will offer services such as U-Haul trucks, trailers, towing equipment, support rental items and pre-tow inspection. Normal business hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through […]

Franklin Health Behavioral Services adds 2 psychiatrists

FARMINGTON — Franklin Health Behavioral Services has two new psychiatrists, Dr. Michaela Moden and Dr. Ryan Robinson. Their expertise and commitment to advancing behavioral health care will support the practice’s mission of providing high-quality mental health services to its community, according to a MaineHealth news release. Moden, a graduate of the University of Texas Southwestern […]