We can see summer from here … almost. This being Maine, another Nor’easter or two before the end of April still would not surprise.
Nonetheless, birds are coming back, the pedestrians, joggers, and cyclists are multiplying by the day, and the first green shoots are sticking up in the battered flower beds outside our Newcastle offices.
We are ready for it. It’s been a hard winter.
We are pleased to see too that with the coming of spring, new presidential campaigns are bursting forth.
Texas Sen. Ted Cruz recently grabbed headlines as the first major candidate out of the gate. Closer to home, Newcastle’s own Morrison Bonpasse has thrown his hat in the ring.
We have written about Bonpasse many times over the years in regards to his public activities. We are on record commending his willingness to act on his convictions, even as we have criticized him in this very space.
His obstinately progressive pursuits make him a divisive figure locally, but agreeing with his quixotic pursuits is not the issue. This is a democracy. We are not supposed to agree on everything.
We do think it is fair to say that if more citizens followed Bonpasse’s example of active citizenship, whatever their persuasion, left, right, or center, our democracy might be in better shape.
