RCV: Power to the voters You’ve probably heard that ranked choice voting will be used in the June 12 Maine primary. Is it complicated? No, RCV is simple. Studies and experience show that people have no problem understanding RCV ballots, and we already use multiple types of ballots. For example, ballots for local boards and […]

There is a Law that man should love his neighbor as himself. In a few hundred years it should be as natural to mankind as breathing or the upright gait; but if he does not learn it he must perish. — Alfred Adler, Austrian psychoanalyst (1870-1937)

I can imagine Dee Snyder shaking his head at the ongoing saga in Harpswell regarding the water tower and shouting, “We’re not gonna take it anymore!” Let’s hope, barring a legal battle over whether it remains standing, that in the near future the big blue ball will come tumbling down. It is remarkable that anyone […]

We are asking the Brunswick Town Council on June 4 to lead on mitigating climate change and pass a resolution that asks our members of Congress to implement revenue-neutral, national carbon fee and dividend legislation: a steadily increasing fee levied at the extraction point of fossil fuels or port of entry into the US, with […]

In 1381, the Peasants’ Revolt against economic injustice erupted in England during the reign of King Richard II; the king and his men, initially caught off-guard, were able to crush the rebellion several weeks later. In 1431, Joan of Arc, condemned as a heretic, was burned at the stake in Rouen, France. In 1536, England’s […]