A Gray Day Today is a gray day for our country. I could say dark day but I’m a more optimistic person than that. The signals sent by the results of the presidential election clearly reflect the opinions of many of our fellow Americans. It would be so easy to be angry at them for […]

You can’t be a full participant in our democracy if you don’t know our history. — David McCullough, American historian

Situated midway across our continent, Standing Rock North Dakota is a long way from downtown Bath. Yet, twice in recent weeks, citizens of Maine’s Midcoast have gathered here in solidarity with those opposing completion of the Dakota Access Pipeline. The feared dangers of that distant project have no immediate consequence for this area, but for […]

Mainers weren’t supposed to defeat Michael Bloomberg’s agenda on the ballot Tuesday. His propaganda was too powerful, his budget was limitless and his paid “grassroots” army was unstoppable. The media seemed to be with him at every turn, echoing his talking points as fact and endorsing the question, one after another. And all along, the […]