Scott Currie: Sheats is right Senate candidate with right experience

I’m writing in support of Bettyann Sheats’ candidacy in the state Senate District 20 election. The towns of Auburn, Durham, Minot and New Gloucester would be very well served with her as a senatorial legislator. Bettyann’s experience is perfect for this leadership role: as a West Point graduate, her years of service in the U.S. […]

Ellen Field: Trump-supporting Republicans ‘defending the indefensible’

Florida Sen. Marco Rubio is full of malarkey when he says that former President Trump’s theft of secret classified documents was a “storage” issue. Those files never belonged to Trump, and he had no right to remove them. The Federal Bureau of Investigation was acting in a perfectly legal manner. What was in the empty […]

Andrea Breau: Rotundo serves, inspires Lewiston people

When I entered Lewiston High School, Peggy Rotundo took a seat on the Lewiston School Committee. When I headed north to college, she went north to the Maine State Senate. The year I started grad school, she became a state representative. These trajectories are not coincidental. As a woman born and raised in Lewiston now […]

Stan Tetenman: DA candidate Rabasco offers new ideas to change system

Ed Rabasco is a lifelong resident of the Lewiston, Auburn and Poland area. He has practiced law for 35 years, representing Maine residents from all walks of life and socioeconomic backgrounds in Oxford, Franklin and Androscoggin counties. Ed has served as moderator for Poland town meetings for 15 years and is a member of the […]

Editorial cartoon for Tuesday, Sept. 20

Froma Harrop: Republicans are stuck with their assault on abortion

The senator from South Carolina [Lindsey Graham] has been reading the polls, clearly. After decades of railing against abortion and populating the U.S. Supreme Court with justices eager to ditch a right to an abortion, Republicans like him are discovering that the broader public never signed up for losing that option.

Cal Thomas: Another Irish exodus

A survey by the National Youth Council of Ireland (NYCI) has found “seven-in-10 young people, ages 18-24 are considering moving abroad for a better life. … Inflation is at its highest since 1984 … and mortgage rates are set to rise for the first time in 11 years.” The Irish Times reports 10,568 people, including 3,137 children, “are now categorised as homeless in the Republic.”

Austin Bay: Let’s field weapons to defeat China’s Pacific strategy

China’s threat has no one single answer. The H96, however, definitely complicates China’s war plans built on defeating big carriers and static bases.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: What do the book banners and burners fear?

If you can’t read freely, how can you ever live freely?

Rich Lowry: Senate Republicans run and hide on abortion

If Republicans truly believe that they can’t defend a 15-week ban, maybe they are right to find any excuse to try not to talk about abortion. But that path leads, ultimately, to implicit surrender.