Steve Meyers Cartoons

07/18/2025

One of my editorial cartoons from September 2014.

07/17/2025

May 18, 2025, Maine Sunday Telegram.

"Lawmakers look to ban legacy admissions in Maine, but some colleges are pushing back. The bill would prevent public and private colleges and universities in Maine from considering whether an applicant's parents went to or donated to the school in the admissions process." - Portland Press Herald headline, April 14, 2025

The bill was introduced by State Senator Michael Tipping, a Democrat representing Penobscot. It did not pass.

07/10/2025

May 11, 2025, Maine Sunday Telegram

07/03/2025

May 4, 2025, Maine Sunday Telegram

06/26/2025

April 27, 2025, Maine Sunday Telegram

06/19/2025

April 20, 2025, Maine Sunday Telegram

"Maine’s medical cannabis providers have once again fought off a controversial requirement to start testing their products — at least for now.

A legislative committee killed one bill and carried over another that would have instituted testing and tracking requirements that industry members have said for years would put them out of business or force price increases.

While Maine’s recreational cannabis market requires testing for contaminants and potency and includes potency limits, the medical market requires neither. Maine is the only state that doesn’t mandate medical cannabis to be tested.

LD 104, proposed by the state’s Office of Cannabis Policy and sponsored by Rep. Marc Malon, D-Biddeford, would have required seed-to-sale plant tracking and standardized chemical, mold and heavy metal testing between recreational and medical cannabis. LD 1847, sponsored by Rep. Anne Graham, D-North Yarmouth, sought to do the same while also adding potency caps on edibles. The latter will be taken up again next year." - June 11, 2025, Portland Press Herald, "Maine won’t require medical cannabis to be tested for contaminants — this year" reported by Hannah LaClaire

06/12/2025

April 13, 2025, Maine Sunday Telegram

06/05/2025

April 6, 2025, Maine Sunday Telegram.

05/29/2025

March 30, 2025, Maine Sunday Telegram

On February 21, 2025, an altercation between President Trump and Governor Mills occurred at a governor's conference in the White House. Mills was ambushed by Trump during his speech. He called her out and demanded Maine disregard state law about transgender athletes. The governor said, "see you in court." On March 22 the orange-faced bumbling strongman demanded a “full-throated apology” for questioning his presidential authority and his commitment to protecting women and girls.

In some seriously bizarro logic, some Maine Trump supporters were angry at her so-called disrespect for our nation's 47th president. A petition was started by Melissa Moulton. In the petition, Moulton wrote that many residents are “deeply dissatisfied with the policies introduced by our governor” and called for “change and improvement” in the state. The recall gathered nearly 30,000 signatures.

Here's the funny part: Maine's constitution does not have an amendment to allow citizens to recall a governor. Ya'd think they would've researched that bit before going through all their effort.

The only process available to remove Governor Mills is the impeachment process. That would require the state House and Senate to participate. The House of Representatives initiates the impeachment process by voting on articles of impeachment, which are essentially formal charges, then it moves over to the Senate where two-thirds of its members have to vote for impeachment. The state House of Representatives has 151 members. There are 76 Democrats, 73 Republicans, one Independent and one unenrolled. There are 35 Maine state senators, currently 20 Democrats and 15 Republicans. In other words, there's a better chance of it raining M&Ms than Governor Mills being impeached.

That's been the procedure here in Maine since we became a state in 1820. Nineteen states allow citizens to recall a governor.

05/28/2025

Monique: "What would Ginger (our new dog) have to do for us to return her?"
Me: "Oh, I don't know. Shoot someone?"
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05/28/2025

05/26/2025

Solar panel door-to-door salesmen are giving Jehovah's Witnesses a real run for their money in my Annoyance Department.
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