The cowardly censure of Rep. Laurel Libby is leftist retribution for a whole host of political shenanigans. At the heart of the matter is the proxy outrage at the public exposure of a biological boy, who shamelessly pole vaulted himself over the girls in Maine high school competition. The outrage should be that it happened […]

After reading about the 75-70 vote to censure Rep. Laurel Libby for using photos and identifying a young transgender student to advance a conservative political agenda, I have one question: How would we feel if this young person was our niece, nephew, grandchild or close neighbor, whose parents are our friends? It is my opinion […]

I am the descendant of undocumented immigrants. My ancestors came here first as refugees from the Thirty Years’ War, in 1632, and last as refugees from the German revolutions of the mid-19th century. My great-great grandfather closed his Vermont school and marched off with two of his older students to answer Lincoln’s call for volunteers, […]

“What can we do?” I hear this question more and more, as Donald Trump and Elon Musk run roughshod over our data privacy, health and safety, workers’ legal protections and constitutional checks and balances. Trump wants to “flood the zone” with these attacks on our democracy, and the majority Republicans in Congress have capitulated to […]

Gov. Janet Mills stood up to the President of the United States and declared that she would follow the law. Instead of being fearful and distracted by the president’s wrath, she stayed focused on what is really going on. Gov. Mills is acting in the best Maine tradition. She is following in the footsteps of […]

I am a teacher and I’ve served many wonderful students from the Democratic Republic of the Congo the last few years. After the seizure of the eastern city of Goma by M23 rebels last month, the Congolese people are deeply worried and reaching out to the international community for support. Recently, hundreds protested in Kinshasa […]

Despite Gov. Janet Mills’ promise to protect it, Maine’s policy allowing biological males who identify as female to participate in women’s sports is a mistake. The policy fails to make two critical distinctions. The first is between gender identity based on emotion and psychology and sex based on incontrovertible reproductive and other physical characteristics. The […]

As an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ, I observe that our country, from its very beginnings, has had conflicting origin stories. About one-third of Christians today believe that the United States was set aside by God as a paradise for white, male, European Christians who would then exercise divinely conferred, top-down dominion […]