The best way to open up safely is to maximize the number of people who can’t catch or spread COVID-19.
2021
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Life Unwound: Quieting the monkey in your mind
On a sunrise walk, I strolled along a path beside a golf course. The sky radiated stripes of pinks and purple before the orb rose huge and round. Billowy clouds in pillowy shapes dotted the pastel expanse above. Birds chatted, echoes of their calls bouncing off the mirror-like water nearby. Squirrels scurried about, chasing each […]
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Developer proposes scaled-down housing project on Saco Island
The plan to build 12 duplex townhouses on a 6-acre parcel follows several failed attempts to develop the property connecting Saco and Biddeford.
Posted inAmerican Journal, Forecaster Opinion, Lakes Region Weekly
Here’s Something: View virus stats with a raised eyebrow
During coronavirus, Mainers have been inundated with statistics of every kind. We hear them every day, in every way, often with a sense of alarm by newscasters that are quoting the Maine Center for Disease Control & Prevention, which logs the data. We hear the latest death count, confirmed case count, probable case count, hospitalizations […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Anti-vaccine letter shows newspaper’s low bar for publication
Please raise whatever bar you have for letters that get published in your paper a lot higher so letters like Heather Connolly’s objection to L.D. 798, the vaccine law (April 5), ends up on the reject pile. Connolly claims that “more than 10,000 Maine children will be left without any access to ‘public’ education (including […]
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Closer look at data shows startling health disparities among Asian Americans
Care providers and public health stakeholders must reach out to vaccinate vulnerable Asian American populations: the low-income and those with limited English proficiency.