In their Dec. 15 commentary, “In Maine and across the country, two-generation approach is critical to reducing child poverty,” Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, and Tony Cipollone, president and CEO of the John T. Gorman Foundation, make a solid case for the urgency in tackling multigenerational poverty. The authors cite decades of research to show that […]

I can make a better speech than President-elect Donald Trump. It would be a speech without slander of groups of people who make a positive impact on this country. It would be a speech without hats. It would be a speech without sentences being repeated two and three times, in case you weren’t paying attention. […]

Full disclosure: I voted against legalizing marijuana. Not because I think it’s bad, or because I care what people do in their free time, but because I knew there would be an increase in the number of marijuana toxicities we see in animals. Sure enough, no sooner was the vote counted than we started getting […]

This is in response to the letter to the editor by Ronald G. Thurston, published Dec. 20, in which he bemoans the “endless carping about the election.” As many are aware, as a direct result of this election, our great democracy is threatened with dangers never seen quite like this in America before. It, therefore, […]