I am disappointed that Graham Platner is leading Gov. Mills in the polls. He is saying what people want to hear, but does he know how to govern? Janet Mills worked her way up. She knows policy and governance inside out. Has her opponent spent any time in public service? Platner’s military service was an […]

Like so many of us, I fight to keep my head above water with the firehose of political and news assaults. As exhausting as it is, I try hard to keep my eyes on the multiple balls that barrage my daily orbit.  Maine’s U.S. Senate race is no exception. This June, I’ll be voting for […]

I have been a teacher educator for 30 years. During that time, nearly a third of my students came through the Troops to Teachers program, a federal effort supporting veterans transitioning to civilian life. I often saw them arrive angry or disoriented, searching for direction and meaning — and I saw them graduate as caring, […]

I have been really disappointed by the Press Herald’s strikingly negative coverage of the Graham Platner campaign. There has been such a clearly negative bias, consistently across article after article, culminating in the recent story about a small focus group that was “reluctantly” supporting Platner. Somehow this newspaper seems to be missing the groundswell of […]