I am dismayed that our esteemed senators, Susan Collins and Angus King, canceled out each other’s very important vote on the Republican tax cut bill that recently passed in the Senate. I – and, I suspect, many others – wonder if these two are effectively representing the same Maine constituency. I firmly believe that because […]

I am freshman class president at Sanford High School, and over the past four months or so, my class has been confronted with an issue we have never before faced: proficiency-based learning. This particular education reform has been promoted by out-of-state corporations and special interests like the Gates Foundation and the American Legislative Exchange Council, […]