A family I’ve known for five years just moved to Indiana. They had a life here in Maine – the kids loved their schools, and the parents both worked hard to make ends meet. But rent was too high, and they were victims of predatory behavior from their corporate landlord. They gave up and moved […]

Does anyone think there is freedom and liberty while locked down in our communities after gunfire on a public road in Saco? Near a bus full of our children? After a slaughter of innocents in Lewiston? Who really thinks that we, the many, held against our will as hostages in our homes by those with […]

Guns are not the problem. The problem is weapons of war. A hunting rifle is a gun. A target rifle is a gun. A pistol for personal protection is a gun. A weapon of war is not a gun – it is a killing machine. There is no reason for a civilian to own a […]

While everyone I know has someone close to them who has experienced out-of-control health care costs, it feels like Mainers have it worse, as our costs are increasing faster and we are driving farther for affordable care. What’s driving this? Hospital consolidation. When hospitals consolidate, patients inevitably suffer to benefit hospitals’ bottom lines. These large […]

Words of outrage for our housing crisis pulse through every corner and conversation. Everywhere I turn, I hear calls for affordable housing and cries for a government that cares about all of its citizens. And yet, on my walks through our city, I see countless homeless neighbors and the demolition of their communities. Our neighbors […]

Why is the demolition of a property protected by Portland’s historic preservation ordinance even being considered? Are all our civic leaders unfamiliar with our city’s history, and too young to remember the demolition of Portland’s beautiful Union Station in 1961? The former Children’s Museum, at 142 Free St., meets four of the six criteria for […]

The Maine Office of Cannabis Policy seems to want to bring its medical cannabis market more inline with the same regulations as its recreational market. I’m all for protecting the consumer, but not when the regulation hurts the consumer. The recreational market currently has people third-party test their products for mold and anomalies. I completely […]

I am writing in support of a recent letter written by Harold Van Lonkhuyzen, M.D., regarding guns as a major public health burden in Maine. Mass shootings are a constant fear for children and adults alike in our society. As a psychiatric nurse practitioner, now retired, I am fed up with the inadequacy of our […]