Maine Voices
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PublishedJune 5, 2023
Maine Voices: Packing up in preparation for the next school year
Students leave in June, carrying all they’ve experienced and learned into a new neighborhood called September.
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PublishedJune 4, 2023
Maine Voices: In praise of the unbeatable tradition of the clothesline
Line drying consumes zero natural resources. The sun destroys viruses and kills bacteria. Clothes don’t shrink. What’s not to like?
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PublishedJune 3, 2023
Maine Voices: Learning to make it all up as I go along
Improv‘s ‘yes, and ...’ rule has me hooked on stepping outside my comfort zone to create a scene with no script.
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PublishedJune 2, 2023
Maine Voices: Concerned about the essence of urban life in Portland’s Bayside
Urbanist and activist Jane Jacobs’ concept of ‘the sidewalk ballet’ risks being steamrollered by a new apartment block on Hanover Street.
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PublishedJune 1, 2023
Maine Voices: The magic of a second spring on Great Cranberry Island
When I make it up to Maine in May, I am thrilled to find nature’s calendar on an earlier page.
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PublishedMay 30, 2023
Maine Voices: In praise of 40 years of Sunday softball in Portland
Until we established a home field in Payson Park, we were nomads, playing a few weeks here or there until chased off by permit-waving league officials.
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PublishedMay 29, 2023
Maine Voices: The stories told by yesterday’s heroes resonate today
Courage in the face of hopelessness made our lives possible – let’s not forget it.
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PublishedMay 28, 2023
Maine Voices: Long-term home health care can be a gift to nurses as well as clients
I may visit weekly or I may visit monthly, but I stay an hour and I’ll be back soon.
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PublishedMay 27, 2023
Maine Voices: Don’t fall for current MAGA hysteria over the national debt
No other nation has as reliably paid its debts as the United States, and the U.S. has more than enough income to support its debt.
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PublishedMay 26, 2023
Maine Voices: Doing our part to keep the alewife alive
A sixth-grader learns how the population is protected by the structures that the fish use to travel up Maine’s rivers each year to spawn in freshwater.
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