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It is time to (carefully) reopen
This past weekend, something broke in my house that needed fixing. Sunday, I decided to venture out into the vast unknown hellscape now known as “reality” to venture to one of our illustrious essential...
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The Mills plan for reopening the economy is no plan at all
When a crisis happens, I think most of us try our best to band together and be on the same team. In the year 2000, this country lived through one of the most bitter and miserable elections in American...
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We can’t be held hostage by coronavirus
It has all the makings of a good scandal. A powerful governor on a private conference call that was not open to the public. A surreptitious recording of the call by a participant, leaked to the media....
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The fantasy of unlimited money
It never ends. Tuesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi unveiled her vision for the next round of congressional action to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is a vision of mountains of cash. Pelosi’s...
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So much for going to the gym
On Tuesday, the Mills administration announced that gyms, fitness centers and (for some reason) nail salons would not be able to open up on June 1, as had been the plan, but would instead need to wait...
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The inherent worthlessness of presidential election polls
If polls are to be believed, Joe Biden is currently enjoying a small but statistically significant lead over President Donald Trump in head-to-head matchups for the White House. That has been true for...
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False divisions must be overcome
It can be quite hard to talk about the issues circulating around the death of George Floyd, as well as the protests that death sparked, without everyone tuning you out. Depending on not only what you...
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What political language do you speak?
Last year I read a book entitled “The Three Languages of Politics,” by Arnold Kling, which was originally published in 2013 and has since been re-issued with an updated edition. In the book, Kling...
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Remembering John Richardson
Tuesday afternoon I learned the unfortunate news that former Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives and former commissioner of the Department of Economic and Community Development John...
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Reopening Maine bars: If not now, when?
On Monday, Gov. Janet Mills announced that the bars in Maine would not be allowed to resume indoor service on July 1, as originally planned. The announcement wasn’t surprising — at least to me — given...
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