The vaccine mandate supports a healthy society and, necessarily, a healthy workforce. To refuse to acknowledge medical research and its responsibility for a healthy society would seem to beg the reasons for science and its conclusions in the first place. No large amount of gray matter is necessary to appreciate the conclusions of scientific research […]

I was watching the news the other day, when the subject of global warming came up; so off we go to the most northern village in the Inuit Nation. The commentator was telling his audience that the rising sea level will soon inundate this village. In the background, an ATV (fossil fueled) rambles by. The […]

I grew up and lived in Maine for 35 years. From 2000-2002, I worked for Maine’s Child Death & Serious Injury Review Panel. Today, I am an academic, a national expert on children who die from abuse or neglect. I have testified before a Congressional commission, published a book and dozens of academic papers, and […]

In 1978, I was generously provided free tickets, while homeless, to a KISS-Aerosmith concert at The Seattle Center’s auditorium in, well, Seattle. While awaiting entry in the front of the line, I started hearing excitement. The doors must have finally opened. It was first-come seating, and the crowd surged forward and happily started forcing its […]

Re: “Our View: Reforming child protection just part of the answer” (Oct. 31): Thank you for your recent editorial acknowledging that the shortcomings in Maine’s child welfare system aren’t simply the fault of overworked caseworkers and an underresourced agency. The welfare of children is everyone’s responsibility. Parenting done well is the toughest job any of […]

Re: “Portland street photographer’s book of negatives a picture of nostalgia” (Nov. 8, Page A1): John Duncan’s photographs evoked my memories of the 1970s, when I first moved to Maine and lived across from the skating pond on Deering Oaks. As a pool player and pizza lover, I am also acquainted with the unnamed establishment […]