I love our beautiful parks, growing bike and trail networks, and the ability to walk and bike to neighborhood businesses in Portland. Unfortunately, this reality is out of reach for many of the people who work in our city. Of the 30 team members in my outpatient medical office on outer Congress, I am the […]

Why change the Maine state flag? I wonder how much this vanity project will cost. During these difficult economic times, I don’t believe Maine taxpayers should be spending money on such a project. It doesn’t really help anyone. There are so many other practical places to spend our tax dollars to really help Maine citizens. […]

Recent declarations by prominent and longtime Maine Republicans Mills, Payne, Emery, Raye, Katz, O’Meara and Cragin – that they will not support Trump for president – is a reassuring sign that some of our Republican leaders will, in extreme circumstances, choose to defend the country instead of holding fast to party allegiance. It is to […]

As a concerned citizen of Maine, I urge my fellow Mainers to vote “Yes” on Question 1 to limit individual contributions to super PACs to $5,000 and keep Mainers voices from being drowned out by big-money special interests, domestic or foreign. In President Obama’s 2010 State of the Union Address, he stated that, “Last week, […]

Independents represent a third of the electorate. Most Republicans will vote for Donald Trump, most Democrats for Kamala Harris. How independents vote will determine the outcome. As an independent, I view this as an opportunity and responsibility. I would prefer more options, but realistically we have only two meaningful choices: Harris or Trump. Donald Trump […]

It’s lawn sign season, when neighbors share their political convictions on the roadsides before they speak at the ballot box. This year is different, however, as Democrats in Midcoast communities have seen a rash of Harris-Walz signs either stolen, trampled or destroyed on-site. To be sure, more signs will be coming soon to be proudly […]

Maine students’ test scores have fallen to record low levels in recent years. In the 1990s, our students ranked among the top in the nation, but now we’re in the mid-40s. That’s a troubling decline. Today, many high school students struggle to read the same novels we once did, and performance in math is even […]