Maine is less than one week away from primary Election Day as Democratic Senate candidate Graham Platner seems poised to pick up his party’s nomination despite several mounting scandals connected to his name. Platner, an oyster farmer and Marine Corps veteran, has faced multiple controversies since announcing his populist campaign for Maine’s U.S. Senate seat […]

Primary elections in the Pine Tree State are taking shape ahead of next week’s voting, with the governor’s office, a Senate seat, and congressional races all on the ballot as Maine voters prepare to head to the polls on Tuesday. Polling places across Maine will open sometime between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. on Tuesday, […]

The first round of June Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in three days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on June 10. The second round will go out on June 17 to those born between the […]

Some months into the COVID-19 pandemic, I learned that my children had begun watching the Australian cartoon series “Bluey.” My first instinct was to deliver a sermon on politicization. Surely the Land Down Under, imposer of some of the strictest lockdown measures on the planet, would use its cultural export to lecture children on the […]