Last week, did I hear the president of the United States say Americans need to get F-15s and nukes if we really want to keep the government in line? I did hear it. Biden apparently was trying to make fun of us “gun nuts” who say Americans need the protections of the Second Amendment to […]

Tina Ford understands the toll of gun violence like few of us ever will. She lives with it every day. In April 2019, her, son, Armani Ford, a local high school football legend, was shot and killed in his hometown of Clairton, Pa., a steel town in the Monogahela River Valley, just south of Pittsburgh. […]

Summer in Maine is undoubtedly our best season, as the throngs of tourists coming “from away” can attest. While much of our natural landscape is wonderful, blackflies, ticks and now a surge of browntail moths make enjoying the outdoors less pleasant. Milder winters and early springs as a result of climate change impact our flora […]

Imagine this scenario. You’re sitting in the audience at the Pickard Theater on the Bowdoin College campus. You haven’t experienced the thrill of live theater for almost a year and a half. Stars from past Maine State Musical Theatre shows stand right behind the curtain, like race horses at the starting gate. They’re as thrilled […]

The sky is falling – that’s what you may believe about a rash of new election laws being introduced, largely by the GOP, in statehouses across the country. Alternatively, you may think these laws are absolutely crucial to ensure election integrity. The Conversation’s Senior Politics Editor Naomi Schalit interviewed election law scholar Derek Muller about […]

On July 4, we celebrate the 245th anniversary of the day in 1776, when the American colonies declared their independence from Great Britain. That seems like a long time ago, so I was surprised to realize that I was among the roughly seven million Americans who have been around for more than one-third of the […]