Ranked-choice voting is again in need of your vote at the June 12 primary, if we are to have democratic elections beyond next month’s polling date. The majority has voted in favor of ranked-choice voting, and the votes have been counted but the results set aside. We now have another chance, as we can use […]

One thing I like about ranked-choice voting is how it reminds me of ice cream. My favorite flavor of ice cream is blueberry. If it’s also almost everyone else’s favorite, then it’s easy for most of us to agree about what to order. But if I am the only person who likes pistachio ice cream […]

I don’t know how, except through your good paper, to ask people to call wind turbines “turbines.” They are not windmills; they do not mill anything. They are converting wind to energy, electricity. They are wind turbines. Ruth Rinklin South Thomaston

What kind of people are we? Twenty-two Mainers recently sat down in the driveway of the Blaine House to call out the immorality of public policy in Maine today. As the Rev. Dr. William Barber II likes to say, the political question of our time is “not about left or right, Democrat or Republican, but […]