Cartoon for Sunday, May 16

Cal Thomas: Signs of the times

Signs have been a part of Middle East lore dating back to biblical times. People in the region take them seriously, which is why the signs emanating from the Biden administration are having serious ramifications.

Leonard Pitts Jr.: Sometimes you wonder what they’re so afraid of

Not that the subject has ever been easy. No, as has often been noted in this space, this country has been positively Herculean in its effort to remain ignorant of African American history. From schools trying to ban it to state laws restricting it, to textbooks telling lies about it, that history is something we have long resisted.

Rebecca Watts: Expanding access to higher education for Maine’s economic recovery

As Maine’s economy moves forward dramatically changed by COVID-19, the academic needs of Mainers continue to evolve and change to align with regional workforce needs and the demand for specific skill sets. Higher education has a duty to help connect talent with professional opportunity, by offering a variety of ways to train Maine’s workforce with the credentials employers trust.

Bob Neal: The Countryman: How America became a Third-World country

We are becoming or maybe we have become a Third-World country. But, we are Third World in a sense much broader than just selling basic commodities to other countries for their people to turn into value-added products.

Cartoon for Saturday, May 15

Lacey Donle: All Mainers need affordable health care

The past year living with the COVID-19 pandemic has shown how important access to affordable health care is for all Maine people. Imagine if COVID testing or vaccines were limited to only some of our Maine residents, and others were excluded from these tests and vaccines based on their immigration status. Excluding people from MaineCare […]

Mike Farrell: CMP’s long history of untruths

Central Maine Power’s false statements continue in perpetuity, because of our weak Public Utilities Commission and our lack of research. Smart meters were efficient money savers. Wrong. Truth comes out: over budget and zero savings. We have no billing issues. Wrong. Media outlets show many cases, and state gets involved. No customer service issue campaign. […]

Froma Harrop: Liz Cheney is not going to the ‘political wilderness’

Cheney is doing more than not selling her soul. Republicans may expel her from the position of House Republican conference chair, but in terms of national importance, she’s going nowhere but up.

Rich Lowry: Biden’s child care folly

It’s just not true, as the Biden program assumes, that parents of young children are eager to shuttle them off to industrialized daycare or pre-K programs.