Reading the headline article of the June 10 newspaper (“LePage rips Eves, tries to foil job chance”) made me wonder how our governor got re-elected. He thought to issue a letter to try to affect the future employment of someone who’s in his fourth term in Augusta because that person had the audacity to disagree […]

Cutting Meals on Wheels out of our budget is a travesty and another demonstration of how little understanding our governor has about what is “fat” in the line items he can cut. As a nurse who has delivered these meals, I can attest to the need to continue to feed our Maine residents. Meals go […]

Bravo to the Penobscot, Passamaquoddy and Micmac chiefs for their recent Joint Declaration. They’ve demonstrated their resilience and self-respect in calling out the state of Maine for its patronizing and disrespectful behavior. In the process, the chiefs have issued us a wake-up call. We owe them our full support. The state of Maine needs to […]

A cap-and-dividend policy can be a factor in reducing greenhouse gases while putting money in Mainers’ pockets. Carbon emission producers would pay a tax on those emissions. The tax in a cap-and-dividend policy would be given back to the people in the form of a check. Alaska does something similar with its oil proceeds. Instead […]