Maine hospitals and health care providers should not treat those unvaccinated by choice unless all others needing or simply wanting medical care have been served. The unvaccinated have chosen their lot. Those they are displacing have no choice. Our system should not allow a group of misguided bad actors to disadvantage those who have acted […]

Bruce Poliquin defies logic in his Dec. 8 op-ed calling for “affordable, reliable energy” for Mainers. He recognizes Mainers’ environmentalism; he rightly recommends energy policy that encourages all sources in light of relative costs, and he objects to welfare spending. Yet his inaction would preserve the “corporate” welfare program that offers massive subsidies to the […]

I read many news stories about vaccination and mask-wearing philosophies and policies. Opinions are all over the map! But only a very mean-spirited person would deny that Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, and his overworked staff do everything they can to monitor and prevent the spread of […]