On April 27, Bath Iron Works will christen a huge warship, a destroyer in name and intention. There will be a celebration. Many of us oppose the blessing of this ship. We want jobs in Maine to focus on solving the climate crisis, rather than adding to the Pentagon’s carbon footprint. Our skilled workers can […]

While progressives and moderates battle for the soul of the Democratic Party, the Republican Party has become the walking dead, the life blood sucked out of it by the vain vampire Trump. The only thing that unites the new Republicans, both here in Maine and nationally, is their sheer mean-spiritedness. You want to believe that […]

The Conservation Law Foundation, a respected environmental group based in Boston, is firmly in favor of Central Maine’s Power Co.’s plan to build a 145-mile transmission line through western Maine to bring Canadian hydropower to Massachusetts. According to the CLF website, tapping Hydro-Quebec’s electricity “makes us reliant on big, carbon-emitting Canadian hydropower, undermining the market […]

Since 1973, the ABC television network has broadcast Cecil B. DeMille’s “The Ten Commandments” during the Easter/Passover holiday season. The 1956 movie follows Moses, played by the great Charlton Heston, as he leads the Jews away from their Egyptian bondage (at the hands of Ramses, played by the equally great Yul Brynner) and toward the […]