Women make up 58.7% of workers in Maine aged 16 and older. In 2024, more young women than men had a bachelor’s degree. They are mothers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, teachers, CEOs, caregivers and much more. A new fight for women’s autonomy faces a president who rewards conservative financial supporters by enacting their restrictive vision […]

In his March 9 Maine Sunday Telegram op-ed (“Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, Gov. Mills chose the wrong hill to die on“), Charles Todorich lambasted Gov. Mills for her reply to President Trump’s threats to our state. I believe that Mr. Todorich, in envisioning our governor’s “hill,” has confused the background and the foreground. The issue that […]

I am writing in response to the March 9 op-ed stating that Gov. Mills chose the “wrong hill” to die on. What I saw in her interaction with President Trump was someone courageously standing up to a bully. She didn’t choose the fight. He called her out about a policy that she did not establish. […]