Earlier this week, Lance Duston wrote on his BDN blog about the need for better-qualified public officials. He argued that voters need to get rid of their fixation on candidates’ regular-guy appeal and instead support those who have government experience and relevant education. I agree with Lance on his first point, but I think he misses the […]
Of all the threats to American lives, few frighten the country more than terrorism. Thousands of Americans and tens of thousands of people elsewhere in the world have lost their lives to terrorism over the past two decades. ISIS has killed upwards of 50,000 people over the course of their existence, one or two hundred of […]
On Christmas Eve, we saw the cheery news that Maine was the only state in the nation to have more deaths than births last year. While seven other states also saw population declines, it was due solely to people moving. Marking the third year in a row deaths have topped births, the report is a […]
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