With a hard-fought campaign and election behind us, we now have the hard task of engaging with our elected representatives in order to plan for programs that ensure a happier and healthier society here in Maine. JAMA Internal Medicine published an article Oct. 24 on the proportion of cancer deaths attributable to cigarette smoking in […]

Your editorial of Nov. 5 accused Gov. LePage of playing on Mainers’ fears of refugee resettlement. You referred to the World War II era and the mistakes and misconceptions of that time, a weak argument. Times have changed. There is a terrorist sect of the Muslim religion that is dedicated to killing nonbelievers. Are they […]

On Nov. 6, our black Lab mix Pepper was let outside and vanished. He is almost 16 years old and has physically deteriorated a great deal this past year. He has trouble standing for very long because his back legs give out. We were extremely worried about his survival. I called the Wells Police Department […]

If Gov. LePage is so in tune with the poor people (since he grew up in poverty himself), why, in the name of all that is good, is his administration keeping $155 million from helping those who need it? What gives him the right to decide to hang on to that federal money? What about […]

For a century women have fought tooth and nail for equality in the political arena, in the workplace and in our marriages. Today it feels as though though nothing has really changed, and yet everything is different. The Donald Trump Supreme Court will bear that out. Voters rejected a woman who has dedicated her life […]