I applaud the young people of our country standing up and using their voices to demand change. My concern: Bullying! About 4,600 young people die by suicide each year – and bullying is a major risk factor in suicidal behavior! What about those kids? Let me provide some further perspective about bullying: There are two […]

The race for governor is a crowded field. Many of the candidates are solid, some have easily recognizable names. And, the positions of several Democratic candidates are not widely different, one from the other. There is only one candidate, however, who has demonstrated administrative, political and management leadership, having served as speaker of the Maine […]

Being in my 80s, and having served in many environmental and conservation positions – including as executive director of the Maine Audubon Society, commissioner of the Maine Department of Conservation, chair of the board of the Gulf of Maine Aquarium, member of the Maine Board of Environmental Protection and several others – I am writing […]

Customers are complaining about high electric bills – I wonder why I don’t see similar complaints against Spectrum. I am a Time Warner customer, grandfathered into the Spectrum family because of their merger. Under Time Warner, I had a promotional rate that immediately increased with Spectrum. My current bill, which was $156, increased to $178 […]

As a social worker who works with substance-exposed infants and their families, I appreciated the recent Maine Voices column by Zoe Odlin-Platz and George A. Hill, highlighting L.D. 1063, An Act to Reduce the Number of Substance Exposed Infants. The authors make a point of looking beyond the title of the bill and addressing the […]

“What was your scariest day in school?” asked my husband on our way home from the ginormous, inspirational Portsmouth March for Our Lives rally March 24. Our collective “scariest” recollections were pitiful compared to what kids face today. How did we get here? When did the Second Amendment become a license allowing grenade launchers and […]

Property taxes alone won’t cover school costs.