MAINE SUNDAY TELEGRAM • March 9, 2025
The U-turn on the abrupt decision to pull NOAA funding — announced to considerable shock and disgust last Saturday — was welcomed last week by the lobstermen, fishers, aquaculture researchers and most everyone with a relationship to Maine’s singular working waterfront. We can’t express our sincere thanks to Sen. Collins, though, or join in the collective sigh of relief at the news of renegotiation without stating the obvious, concerning and very irritating: It simply should not have come to this. Sen. Collins could be worked to the bone if this babyish style of governing keeps up. Sadly, we see no evidence at all to suggest it won’t.