Up against the blue curtains!

How's it feel to be the man?

The odd man out in this motley crew is Alan Caron, founder of the anti-sprawl GrowSmart Maine and now director of Envision Maine, which bills itself as a non-partisan think tank interested in informing public policy makers. I’m sure Caron has moderated his political views since I first knew him as a prison reform activist in the 1970s, but unless he has changed his spots completely, he seems to be the token progressive on Team LePage.

A 2007 trip down memory lane from the Boston Phoenix. As Ben Folds sings, "first you wanted revolution, now you're the institution".