Virtual statewide Arts Education Advocacy Day to be held Feb. 17

AUGUSTA — All Maine residents will have a chance to attend Arts Education Advocacy Day this year. Normally held at the Augusta State House, but canceled last spring due to the pandemic, Advocacy Day will be presented virtually from 10 to 11:30 a.m. Wednesday, Feb. 17. Organized by the Maine Alliance for Arts Education and […]

Cal Thomas: Biden: A liberal wolf in moderate sheep’s clothing

Biden has reverted to an old and meaningless excuse when he says he doesn’t want to “impose” his faith on others. The question then becomes why have a faith at all, if he won’t apply what his church teaches as truth? How is Biden different from a person who is about to witness a murder but doesn’t try to stop it, or call the police, because he doesn’t want to impose his moral views about the value of life on a man about to commit an illegal and immoral act?

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Thomas Shields: U.S. will ‘suffer the consequences’ under Biden

President Biden talks one way and does the opposite. His speeches spoke of unity. In his first day in office he immediately canceled 15 executive orders made by President Trump. Did he think of these all by himself? What kind of unity is encouraged by these sledgehammer actions? No discussion on what is good for […]

Peggy Volock: L-A needs COVID vaccination site

Why isn’t there any site being prepared to administer COVID vaccinations in the Lewiston-Auburn area? My friends have gotten appointments in Waterville, and news stories have shown others going to Greenville. A mass vaccination center is opening in Bangor on Tuesday, one is being set up in Scarborough, and others are proposed for Brunswick Landing […]

Larry Gilbert: Praise for honoring Muslim holidays

I commend the Lewiston School Committee and Superintendent Jake Langlais for their decision to add two holidays to the school calendar to mark the Muslim holiday known as Eid.  If we are going to honor religious holidays for Christians and Jews, we should for Muslims.  Back when serving as mayor, I was invited to attend […]

Leonard Pitts Jr.: What will it take to shock the GOP back to itself?

Can the GOP be saved otherwise? Truth is, the rest of us have no say. If the party is to be saved, the party will have to do it. And while we can’t know all that that will take, we do know it will take courage.

Rich Lowry: Congress bows to the pen and the phone

President Joe Biden has proved that, if nothing else, he has a pen and a phone. According to The Economist, he signed more executive orders in his first two days than President Donald Trump signed in nearly his first two months. And he was just getting started. Republicans have no standing to complain about Biden’s […]

Pinky Mennealy: Elected officials need to wear masks, too

As a local heath care worker, I can personally attest to the devastating effects the COVID-19 pandemic is having on our society in general, our elderly population, and economy in particular. Health care facilities are struggling to meet basic staffing needs of all shifts, thus I was astounded to read that elected officials in both […]

Rep. Nathan Wadsworth: Creating jobs, economic opportunities for Mainers through clean energy

At its heart, clean energy is more than just an environmental issue — it is an economic one.