As a physician and public health professional with experience and knowledge of our federal, state and local healthcare systems, I felt compelled to comment on the recent news of the Mid Coast Hospital – Parkview Adventist Medical Center partnership. Randee Reynolds of Parkview and Lois Skillings of Mid Coast are showing true leadership by working […]

I wonder if the Republican presidential candidates will ever grow up and see the world as it really is. Global warming and destruction of the environment by human intention and carelessness is real. As a group they all dismiss Pope Francis’s encyclic on climate change. Wake up guys. Pope Francis is a learned man, with […]

It seems many humans like the shooter of nine innocent people in Charleston, S.C., act out of a mission to kill from a thought process of faulty wiring. We as a nation and a world cannot identify or correct all people with wiring that drives them to kill innocent people; however, we do have the […]

Gov. Paul LePage carries water for America’s corporate oligarchy. (Webster’s Dictionary defines oligarchy as “government in which power is in the hands of the few.”) A quick review of LePage’s time in office makes clear that he serves the interests of the rich and the mega-corporations. America is being hollowed out as jobs move overseas […]