With this week’s conviction of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, America once again finds itself at an inflection point in its politics. We’ve been here before: After Newtown, after Parkland, after the protests of 2020, after Atlanta, after Boulder – the chance to really reimagine public safety has sat right in front of us. […]

Local volunteers are approaching Maine towns and cities to approve a resolution asking Congress to support a carbon cash back bill. This charges a fee for fossil fuels at the well or mine, and returns all that money to every American citizen in the form of a monthly dividend check. This would increase the price […]

In a just society, no person and no family should be going without nutritious food. That commitment should hold true at all times, especially when we are all pulling together to face down a crisis as we have done now for over a year. That’s why I have introduced LD 1299, An Act To Permit […]

In his recent guest column (“Wealthy landowners attempting rule change threatens Maine’s working waterfront,” The Times Record, April 21), Sebastian Belle is quick to lay blame on a “few wealthy landowners” for “attacking the many who make their living on the water.” While that scenario makes for good theater, it is nothing more than a […]

Republican pollster Frank Luntz met last weekend with 17 vaccine-resisting Trump voters to better understand why they won’t take the simple step of protecting themselves and their fellow citizens. Their answers were predictably ignorant. One guy said, “I mean, we’re just going to be shot up and shot up and shot up. We can’t live […]