All posts by Jim Fossel
What we can agree on on Memorial Day
One certainty: Predictions will continue to be pointless throughout 2016
Retreat from free trade? Prepare for $2,000 iPhones, strained economy
Imposing steep tariffs would be less likely to result in a rebirth of American manufacturing than it would be to hinder American innovation.
Portland Pirates’ departure highlights what corporate welfare can get you
We can’t have a campaign based on making people afraid
Think ESPN fired Curt Schilling out of moral outrage? Think again
That time a Mainer ran the outsider presidential campaign
The Democrats’ insurgency moment
Republicans forcing Democrats to set priorities. Maybe this will get results
Republican leaders in Augusta have reacted to Democrats’ spending wish list for the legislative session with a surprise strategy. They’re not negotiating on individual items, and they’re not simply opposing any new spending. Instead, they’re attempting to use it as leverage to revive a competing measure to the minimum wage increase measure headed for the […]
Republicans can still stop Trump, but it won’t be easy
Democrats propose welfare reform, but are they serious?
How compromise made a surprising return to Augusta
It seemed like an irreconcilable conflict between the two parties, but they resolved it last week in a bipartisan way. The showdown over time-sensitive tax conformity legislation, vitally important to small business owners across the state, had stretched on for weeks this winter. Democrats had been opposing the legislation, holding it hostage to their demand […]