Déjà vu all over again – another presidential election with major-party candidates skirting the critical issues. Most critical is the challenge of carbon overload to an economy based on squandering irreplaceable resources, unsustainable consumption, reckless environmental degradation and politics oriented to abetting the greed of corporate powers, even at the expense of human survival. Bernie […]

A recent editorial by the Portland Press Herald (“Our View: State’s full employment statistics are nothing to celebrate,” Feb. 23) pointed out that Maine reached full employment at the end of 2015 and that the state needs to do everything possible to bring more people into the workforce, including people “from away.” As the owner […]

Suzie Edwards, the Boothbay Harbor pre-teen who thinks it’s “stupid” to reserve certain activities for high schoolers (such as singing the national anthem at state basketball tournaments), won’t think so when she herself is a high school student. (I hope.) For everything, there is a season. Charlotte Henderson Washington

Given the current debates about whether or not to expand the Maine Correctional Center in Windham or how solitary confinement is utilized, I thought it was time to point out the elephant in the room that no one wants to discuss. The fact is that prisons and correctional facilities do not work. Period. They never […]