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  • Published
    January 5, 2024

    Rich Lowry: Confession of a public health expert

    The former head of the National Institutes of Health during the pandemic and current science advisor to President Joe Biden, Francis Collins, has noted that he and his colleagues demonstrated an "unfortunate" narrow-mindedness.

  • Published
    January 2, 2024

    Froma Harrop: Sorry, haters. California is doing just fine

    There's a neurotic need in the right-leaning media to declare that California is going down.

  • Published
    January 2, 2024

    Cal Thomas: Biden not ‘faithfully executing’ the law

    When it comes to the open southern border it could be argued — and should be argued by more members of Congress — that the president has violated his oath, which is reason enough for impeachment.

  • Published
    December 31, 2023

    Rep. Mike Lajoie: Legislature must address new PFAS regulations

    Maine’s legislature faces an urgent policy dilemma with how the state should move forward to enforce a new law regulating the presence of PFAS, sometimes referred to as “forever chemicals,” in the economy.

  • Published
    December 31, 2023

    Cal Thomas: Looking back, looking forward

    The past is a better teacher if we will pay attention to successes and mistakes, that we might avoid one and embrace the other.

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  • Published
    December 31, 2023

    Austin Bay: ‘Projecting a different picture’ won’t solve Biden’s border crisis

    The Biden administration is attempting to hide its responsibility for its policy disaster on the U.S.-Mexico border and the subsequent illegal migrant crisis. Even Democrats now acknowledge the border crisis is a major political and economic problem that will damage them in the 2024 national elections.

  • Published
    December 30, 2023

    Bob Neal: The Countryman: What did not happen in 2023

    Each party had ample opportunity in 2023 to smarten up. Neither did.

  • Published
    December 29, 2023

    Froma Harrop: Mine eyes have seen the glory of reading on paper

    Books have long provided what sociologists call third places — that is, hangouts that are neither work or home. Both bookstores and libraries fill the bill. These third places provide company and a sense of community. If you think that an hour of quiet reading isn't a big draw, consider: One New York bar charges a $10 admission fee per reading session and has 270 people on its waiting list.

  • Published
    December 28, 2023

    Cal Thomas: Ignorance and apathy

    Deliberate ignorance and false teaching about events here and in the Middle East and China, along with the refusal of American media to pay serious attention to the connection between foreign donations and university policies and teaching, plays into the hands of those who do not wish America well.

  • Published
    December 24, 2023

    Jason Judd: Apprenticeships yield results and make the case for more growth and investments

    Today’s apprenticeship programs are not my father’s apprenticeships. They involve learning new technologies and skills, are in very high-demand fields and are no longer only for high school students. In fact, the average age of a Maine apprentice is 29.