Mike: Cynthia, drugs are bad, ‘mkay? I remember that line from Mr. Mackey on South Park growing up, and now it seems to be the one tenet on which Janet Mills and Paul LePage agree. Is drug enforcement ripe for bipartisan cooperation? Cynthia: Enforcing the law is not bipartisan cooperation. It’s the constitutional duty of […]
Cynthia: Paul LePage is so hostile to Maine’s Freedom of Access law, he’s ordered staff to run the bulk of state government business without writing anything down. This might explain why his administration keeps missing major deadlines. What little communication the governor does put in writing is scribbled on cards that are not copied or […]
Mike: Cynthia, was Target missing the mark differentiating between boys’ and girls’ toys? Or do hurried shoppers like having aisles sorted by age and sex? Cynthia: Hurried shoppers in Target are usually mothers who feel old and don’t have time for sex. Toys are either fun or not fun, but signs about the ratio of […]
People in Maine may be conditioned to see their chief executive say outrageous things, but it wasn’t always this way. Now we are stupefied, dazed, anesthetized, but before 2010 we were convinced no pugnacious bully saying outrageous things about “bull semen” stood a chance at the ballot box. And then Paul “kiss my butt” LePage […]
Cynthia: Both the Pope and President Obama have called for sweeping changes to confront the disastrous effects of climate change, Mike, and the president’s Clean Power Plan calls on each state to submit its own proposal for cutting carbon dioxide emissions. How much do you want to bet that Gov. LePage will refuse to comply […]
