These days, we’re all used to walking through retail stores in October and dodging Christmas displays of inflatable Baby Yoda yard art while we’re still trying to find the perfect Halloween pumpkins to decompose on our front porches. The real holiday season mashup controversy, though, emerges in November, when we try to determine when it’s […]

We need to all be vaccinated I’m grateful that the Maine CDC and the Press Herald diligently report COVID case rates and hospitalizations. But I think we are all woefully uninformed about the effect of high COVID case rates on our access to medical care. For example, how overwhelmed are the Emergency Departments of our […]

“I grew up near Newark, New Jersey, and I never knew how racist my parents were until the race riots occurred,” says Carol Martin. “My mother was terrified.” That experience combined with her friendship with a young African-American colleague at North Park University in Chicago led Carol to take the Sacred Ground program offered by […]

Vote-counting on Nov. 2 lacked suspense. Early on, it was certain Question 1, to ban “high impact transmission lines in the Upper Kennebec region” would pass easily. What could have been a vote about providing renewable energy to New England, with significant benefits for Maine – and displacing the fossil fuel-burning that creates global warming […]

Because life is mostly made up of little experiences, occasionally interrupted by big events, it’s easy to take the little things for granted. But Shutterfly, the photography and image-sharing company, offers a list of 100 things, large and small, that we ought to single out for our gratitude this Thanksgiving. Our homes, our incomes and […]