Marc Lavoie: Reflections upon Lake Auburn

Columns & Analysis

Published
June 18, 2023

Marc Lavoie: Reflections upon Lake Auburn

My family and I are grateful for all of the water district personnel in Auburn and Lewiston — both past and present — who have and continue to provide us with the precious resource ... which we, too often, take for granted.
Published
June 18, 2023

Rich Lowry: There should be no ‘woke’ in baseball

The Toronto Blue Jays just cut one of their relief pitchers, Anthony Bass, for not getting with the LGBTQ program. He thus became the first player in major league history to be DFA'ed for associating himself with traditional Biblical morality.
Published
June 17, 2023

Genevieve Lysen: Let’s save lives by allowing harm reduction health centers in Maine

No matter who we are or what our lives have been like, we’re all human, and almost all of us are touched in some way by the opioid crisis. Most Mainers believe that people who use drugs should not be treated as criminals, and that substance use disorder should be treated as a public health issue.
Published
June 17, 2023

Bob Neal: The Countryman: The timelines that separate us

While there are divisions of class and economics and education in this country, scenes are now playing out that represent a division of time, between the past and the future.
Published
June 15, 2023

Christine Peters: Maine’s proposed flavored tobacco ban takes aim at the wrong targets

Rather than punish hard-working businesses that responsibly sell tobacco, lawmakers should focus on enforcing current laws and continue to work with responsible tobacco retailers who understand the issues and obey the law.

Published
June 14, 2023

Thomas Page: The proposed amendment to LD 1619 is a ‘farce’

The insertion of the simple term “Standard of Care” into the language of the bill was the so-called “amendment” that allowed Democrat members to accept and approve this legislation. The problem is, those words clarify nothing.
Published
June 14, 2023

Cal Thomas: The Trump indictment

Trump has brought many of his legal troubles on himself by his attitude and behavior. Still, his supporters and even some of his Democratic detractors, realize prosecuting a former president could bring serious consequences to the country and future presidents.
Published
June 13, 2023

Rich Lowry: Don’t erase the Anglo-Saxons

What the academics hostile to their own field of study want to do is take a term that is readily recognized, broadly understood, and generates public interest, and replace it with something more obscure for no good reason.
Published
June 12, 2023

Who deserves welfare? That’s the wrong question.

Defining worthiness is not a goal that the government can achieve. It can't reach into households and pluck out those whom it likes best, and it leaves us all worse off when it tries.
Published
June 11, 2023

Clarence Page: Migrant crisis gives Chicago diversity a stress test

America’s latest migrant crisis has come to Chicago and, in an unfortunately Chicago-style way, threatens to reopen old divisions over race, ethnicity and whether new arrivals might be getting helped before others in need who are already here.

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