If you are the parent of a child who is bullied, at some point – once you get over your initial devastation – perhaps you begin to think of the child who is doing the bullying. Perhaps you ponder the cause. Many of us tend to think kids who bully are hurting in some way, […]

When people ask me what I’m up to these days, I sometime answer, only half facetiously, “I’m trying not to outlive print journalism, but it could happen.” The long, slow death of print news is all too real in our virtual society. Last week we learned that the venerable (by alternative newspaper standards) San Francisco […]

There exists a Grand Canyon-esque gap between the general perception of our challenges here in Maine and the various realities we’re facing as a state. If you listen to most politicians, you hear only theatrical rants, hypnotic sound bites and rote promises relating to the symptoms – and never honest analysis of the root causes. […]