At a time when medical support for Americans is being cut or constrained, the proposal to build a gilded ballroom at the White House sends a troubling message about national priorities. Reducing access to essential care while advancing an extravagant construction project at taxpayer expense reflects a profound moral failure. If a tenant damages a […]

Maine, like Washington, was built by people who respect the sea. That legacy is being desecrated — and our elected officials are letting it happen. A new undercover investigation has, again, exposed brutal conditions at Cooke Aquaculture’s salmon hatchery in Bingham — animals slammed into concrete, unchecked disease, filthy overcrowded tanks. This is not new. […]

Recently, I have been listening to Doris Kearns Goodwin’s engaging memoir, “An Unfinished Love Story,” which chronicles her husband Dick Goodwin’s experiences as advisor and speech writer to both John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Especially dramatic was the recounting of the events of March 7, 1965, where unarmed civil rights protesters walked across […]