Ronald Reagan would be shocked to see what has happened to his party. The Republican Party is now a Donald Trump personality cult, lost in an alternative reality where facts don’t matter and where they are now waging an assault on American democracy itself. What has played out since the election is nothing short of […]

It is overwhelmingly apparent that, here in Maine and throughout the country, there is a strong, vocal and possibly violent group of Americans who believe it is their God-given, if not “constitutional right” to not be required to wear a mask to slow the spread of the COVID virus. It is time that towns, cities, […]

I want to tell people about my mother. She is almost 71 years old. New Year’s Eve is also her birthday. My mother was ill last year on her birthday and did not really celebrate. This Maine woman deserves to be celebrated. Like many Maine mothers and grandmothers, my mother has been a long-term caregiver […]

I sat in my kitchen a few days ago and watched as the sanitation crew emptied my recycling bin. It was raining hard, and it was cold, with a chilling, howling wind. I thought to myself, “My God, how underrecognized are the services these fine folks provide every day often under the most stifling, severe […]

I was dismayed to read the prominent commentary by Washington Post columnist Marc A. Thiessen in the Dec. 11 edition (Page A11) where the introductory paragraph included a line about “… the now-disproved conspiracy theory that Donald Trump had colluded with Russian intelligence … .” This statement is at best misleading. In August, the U.S. […]

This administration‘s own head of cybersecurity stated that the 2020 election was the most secure in our nation’s history. The attorney general said that the Justice Department did not find evidence of massive voter fraud. The Supreme Court refused to hear cases brought before it to overturn the election results. The Electoral College validated the […]

As it is the practice of our faith to affirm the inherent worth and dignity of all people, we the First Universalist Church of Yarmouth decry the racist vandalism perpetrated on the Littlejohn Causeway in November. We support the Yarmouth High School Black Student Alliance and are prepared to amplify their calls for action and […]