Yes, I drive a car that uses gas, heat my home with oil and consume as much electricity as the next 21st century American. So, no, I can’t get all holier than thou about energy consumption. Still, I am opposed to Central Maine Power Co.’s so-called New England Clean Energy Connect proposal to build a […]

Eric Brakey doesn’t like Republicans. Which is odd, because Brakey is – more or less by default – the GOP’s candidate for U.S. Senate. Brakey, a two-term state senator from Auburn, got the nomination because no serious Republican dared to take on incumbent independent U.S. Sen. Angus King. (Before you rush to email me that […]

On Nov. 6, the voters of Yarmouth will have the opportunity to provide our growing student population with updated, right-sized schools. The two bond questions on the ballot propose a major renovation of Yarmouth Elementary School and an expansion of Yarmouth High School (Question 1) and additions to Rowe School and Harrison Middle School (Question […]

Who couldn’t use an escape from the real world, especially now as insanity in the public sphere runs amok. What we need is a good book to take us away, like a long soak in Calgon, to different times, different lives, different everything. Luckily for escapee-wannabees, PBS, that great American publicly funded broadcasting network (which […]

I cherish my collection of everything zebra, gained over the past few years: A piggy bank, a wooden one with straw mane and tail, another with ribbon-reins, a postcard photo of six zebras. I especially treasure the teeniest, the plastic one my friend Karen gave me the day after we did that yoga. Years ago, […]

State Rep. Janice Cooper, D-Yarmouth, has a long history of advocating for women’s rights, and a woman’s right to make their own health-care decisions. A vote for Janice is a vote to protect our own rights, as well as the future of our children’s rights to their own bodies. In an time when the Maine […]

I’ve paid scant attention to the Shawn Moody campaign, knowing he’s had no experience in and knows nothing about working in state government. He has Paul LePage’s daughter as his campaign manager and other LePage lackeys pulling his strings and telling him what to do and say. Edgar Allen Beem’s column comparing Moody to Howdy […]

I watched David Ray’s public comments at Yarmouth’s special meeting on the petition that would prevent town and school employees from serving on the Town Council. Although Mr. Ray was speaking against the petition, his demeanor, tone of condescension and utter contempt for those who might support the petition only confirmed to me the importance […]

As a native Mainer, mother, community member, and pediatrician of almost 40 years, I’ve become sick with worry for our kids. Our governor and our president have done everything possible to make it harder for coming generations to thrive. They have worked to devastate health coverage, environment protection, public schools, and educational safeguards. Their policies […]

Sadly, again, I am writing to state my disdain for columnist John Balentine, who has found the tone of American politics in his view to be mostly the fault of resisting Democrats and renowned reporters like Bob Woodward. They are, in his words, “trumping up every story.” If I were him I wouldn’t sully the […]