On his way to scooping up $15 million in campaign contributions in California in two days, President Donald Trump was troubled. The Golden State has a growing problem with homelessness, he had learned (presumably from one or more of the 18 segments Fox News has aired about it this year), and he was determined to […]
Megan Bachelder
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Walter Shapiro: 2020 Democrats may dream big now, but reality will bite them later
The bidding war that has defined the Democratic presidential race reached its apogee of absurdity earlier this month when Bernie Sanders had to explain that, no, he had no plans to erase voters’ credit card bills. Questioned about his proposal to wipe away $81 billion in personal medical debt in a New Hampshire interview, the […]
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Jonathan Bernstein: Obstruction of Congress, live on TV
The House Judiciary Committee brought in President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski on Tuesday as part of what it’s now calling an impeachment investigation. Indeed, the committee subpoenaed Lewandowski, former White House staff secretary Rob Porter and former White House deputy chief of staff Rick Dearborn to discuss clear evidence of obstruction of […]
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View from Away: Trump right to be in ‘no rush’ to respond to attacks in Saudi Arabia
It’s reassuring that President Donald Trump says that he’s in “no rush” to respond militarily to last weekend’s devastating air attacks on two Saudi Arabian oil facilities — attacks Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo blamed on Iran. On Sunday the president had tweeted that the United States was “locked and loaded,” waiting only for […]
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Maine Compass: Youth lead way on climate
We need to continue to teach students how to affect change in their communities.
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George Smith: To columnist Bill Caldwell, Maine was the ‘best beat of all’
Bill Caldwell was one of my favorite newspaper columnists, partly because he really focused on the Maine he and I loved. Bill wrote for the Portland Press Herald twice a week and for the Sunday Telegram on Sundays for 25 years, writing about 3,000 columns before retiring in 1991. He had spent seven years in […]