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PublishedOctober 20, 2019
Councilor: Waterville leaders should welcome input
Letter
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PublishedOctober 19, 2019
View from Away: Cummings a true patriot
Cummings, who died early Thursday morning at the age of 68, used his verve and influential words to defend his native Baltimore and crusade for the less advantaged.
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PublishedOctober 19, 2019
View from Away: Hosting the G-7 summit as his flagging Doral resort could bring Trump a massive windfall
Brazen is the only word for it. Well, that and emoluments. The White House announced Thursday that the next meeting of the G-7 — the leaders of seven of the world’s biggest economies — will take place at President Trump’s for-profit Doral golf resort in Miami in June. Even if the president’s family business, the […]
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PublishedOctober 19, 2019
Commentary: Federal taxes are too high
The Democrats running for president have demanded the government raise taxes on income, gasoline, energy, capital gains and your life savings at death. And your retirement savings will be hit by multiple taxes that they promise will only hurt “the rich” but will first and foremost reduce the value of your savings in your IRA […]
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PublishedOctober 18, 2019
View from Away: Trump officials fill in the blanks on quid pro quo in Ukraine
Two of President Donald Trump’s presumably loyal appointees painted an alarming picture last Thursday of how Trump and lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani turned up the pressure on Ukraine to ensure its help with two politically oriented investigations. No matter how the White House tries to spin the news, it’s seeming increasingly clear that the president […]
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PublishedOctober 18, 2019
Our View: State’s plan for lobster lines an improvement
Between 2017 and 2018, 20 right whales died — a staggering 4 percent of the population — mostly from entanglements with fishing lines. Experts say even one death a year could doom the population, which has fallen to about 400.
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PublishedOctober 18, 2019
Jay Ambrose: Trump still not as bad as the Democrats
President Donald Trump, surrounded by political enemies constructing an underhanded, dishonest impeachment, pretty much told the nation that he did not belong in the White House when he decided to yank our troops out of Syria. It was a disastrous, ignorant move serving no end but revived terrorism, murderous calamity for our Kurdish allies and […]
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PublishedOctober 18, 2019
View from Away: The impeachment inquiry needs more transparency and a floor vote
President Donald Trump can be expected to denounce the House’s impeachment inquiry as a “witch hunt” or a “coup” attempt no matter how fair and transparent the process is. But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi still needs to shore up the credibility of the fast-moving investigation by having the entire House vote to authorize it and […]
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PublishedOctober 17, 2019
Carl P. Leubsdorf: Democratic divide on display at debate
The latest Democratic debate provided a dramatic display of the divide between the advocates of revolution and restoration in the party’s presidential race. It also illustrated the contest’s revised pecking order On one side, Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders argued the country needs major structural reforms and defended far-reaching proposals epitomized […]
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PublishedOctober 17, 2019
Commentary: Higher education discriminates against conservatives
Higher education prides itself on two overarching values: supporting the marketplace of ideas and academic freedom. But there has been an increasing and unremitting effort to eliminate conservatives and conservative thought in the humanities and social sciences in the American academy. Channeling the late civil rights advocate President John F. Kennedy, who said, “Are we […]
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