Recently, in Portland, we see the landscape and skyline growing with shiny, spendy buildings like The Roux Institute, WEX’s new corporate headquarters and the new buildings at USM on Bedford Street. But one might take a moment, while passing by, and consider what’s missing from these massive, modern projects: any significant integration of solar photovoltaic […]

Some suggestions for a stately response from Gov. Mills. How about a quarter-throated apology? Or a third-throated? No way should Mills give Donald Trump a full-throated apology. For what? “See you in court”? The dreaded “court” where he’s been declared a felon? I got a quarter-throated possibility: “Sorry — didn’t realize the C word would […]

I’ve been writing letters in my head about Trump’s slash-and-burn cuts, assisted by an obscenely rich man who wasn’t elected by anyone. I’ve torn them up because I feel so defeated. We “little people,” especially in Maine, have no influence on this administration. Are any of the states’ representatives working together to reverse his most […]