Letter
Megan Bachelder
View from Away: Impeachment is a grave matter. Proceed with caution
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s decision Tuesday to open a formal impeachment inquiry is a momentous step. Without some caution, it could also be a perilous one for American democracy. The impetus for Pelosi’s pronouncement was a whistle-blower complaint by a U.S. intelligence official that alleges misconduct by the president. Donald Trump’s administration tried its best […]
Will Bunch: Trump impeachment isn’t politics. It’s whether there’s anything America’s powerful can’t get away with
A lot of stuff had to happen before Donald Trump could stand in front of Iowa voters on a chilly yet somehow more innocent day back in January 2016 and make his famous declaration that “I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and wouldn’t lose any voters, OK … ” […]
Somerset County courts for April 29-May 10, 2019
Closed cases from Skowhegan District Court and Somerset County Superior Court.
Another View: Editorial unfair to charter schools
Your editorial on Aug. 20 (“Virtual charter schools didn’t live up to the hype”) starts with a fallacy: No one ever said charter schools were going to “fix” what was wrong with public education. No one ever sold school choice as an elixir that would magically cure some of the systemic issues in our public […]