What finally did it for me, after listening to and reading the endless carping about the election, was the Dec. 13 Maine Voices column suggesting – actually demanding – that Brexit leader Nigel Farage be banned from living in Maine. Never in my 80 years on this planet, through world war, police actions, numerous elections […]

Maine AllCare has received many responses to the Dec. 5 Maine Voices column, “Trump’s health care policy appears heavy on complexity, light on mercy.” One respondent correctly observed that not every industrialized country has a “single-payer” system. This observation misses the forest for the trees. Indeed, many countries employ private insurance companies. But they are […]

As temperatures rise because of global warming and federal policies don’t change fast enough, many cities across the country (and world) are taking the initiative and implementing changes to drastically decrease their emissions into the atmosphere. One example is Boulder, Colorado, which privatized energy utilities in order to quickly and efficiently convert to clean energy. […]

In his campaign, Donald Trump railed against the corruption of modern-day Washington: Wall Street has too much power, lobbyists make all the decisions, career politicians are in it just for themselves – and the working guy has been left out in the cold. He vowed he would change all that. He would “drain the swamp.” […]