Jim Fossel
Portland Press Herald
Gardiner, ME, United States
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Jim Fossel: To Facebook, we users are not the customers, but the products
To make your account more secure – instead of just eliminating it – stop using it to log in to other sites. → Read More
America needs a real uniter, but it’s unlikely to get one this November
At a time when the world so desperately needs strong leadership from the U.S., both major political parties have abdicated that responsibility. → Read More
Partisan division doesn’t just belong to Republicans
Voters in both parties rejected the cooperative, moderate spirit last week. → Read More
Mainers need to reclaim citizen initiatives from out-of-state astroturfing
There's a simple rule book to follow for an out-of-state group looking to notch a win in Maine. → Read More
One certainty: Predictions will continue to be pointless throughout 2016
Here are the known unknowns of this election cycle. → Read More
Portland Pirates’ departure highlights what corporate welfare can get you
It's one thing to structure tax policy generally to help attract businesses. It's another matter entirely to spend taxpayer money fixing a facility to keep one business, or on bailouts for a specif... → Read More
We can’t have a campaign based on making people afraid
We need people who aren't afraid — and who aren't trying to make us afraid — to run for office. → Read More
Think ESPN fired Curt Schilling out of moral outrage? Think again
ESPN performed a simple cost-benefit calculation after the former Red Sox pitcher shared a Facebook meme about transgender people's bathroom access. → Read More
That time a Mainer ran the outsider presidential campaign
This candidate from Maine used a campaign model that would later be adopted by candidates as widely varied as Bernie Sanders, Donald Trump, Ron Paul, and Barack Obama. → Read More
The Democrats’ insurgency moment
How deep will the Democratic divide become? → Read More
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... → Read More
Republicans can still stop Trump, but it won’t be easy
Right now, the GOP is stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. → Read More
Democrats propose welfare reform, but are they serious?
Have Democrats truly done an about-face, recognizing after years of opposition that Mainers overwhelmingly want to fix the state's welfare system? Or is it merely political shenanigans? → Read More
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... → Read More
Referendum questions shouldn’t get a free pass to the ballot
Citizen initiatives bring up important ideas that are often unworkable solutions as written. Rather than simply checking out of the citizen initiative process, the Legislature should be fully engag... → Read More
Ranked-choice voting is rigging the game, not reforming it
Supporters of ranked-choice voting seem to be taking the pessimistic view that Mainers vote against people, rather than for people. → Read More
Tax fight reveals the truth about Maine Democrats
Given their antipathy to Gov. Paul LePage, one suspects that the Democrats may be more interested in brinksmanship and holding tax conformity hostage for election-year shenanigans. → Read More
Time for conservatives to rally around Rubio
Who is the rightwardmost, viable candidate left in the GOP race for the presidential nomination? → Read More
The voting finally begins in Iowa — but why should it?
Today, after many, seemingly endless months of campaigning, debating, attacking, debunking, and defending, actual voting begins in the 2016 presidential election. Across Iowa, voters will gather to... → Read More
Defeating Trump, Sanders will take someone other than Michael Bloomberg
As D.C. residents were preparing for, and then digging out from, the winter storm of the century, the already-volatile 2016 presidential race faced a potential storm of its own: the prospect of for... → Read More