She was only 18 when rheumatic fever damaged her heart. The doctors said she’d be lucky to live into her 40s — that she was no longer strong enough to bear children. Lucky for my five sisters and me, she ignored them! When we were babies in her womb she never took so much as […]

Newton Minow will always be remembered for a 1961 speech in which he described television as a “vast wasteland.” However, late in life he became less concerned about TV’s wastefulness and more troubled by its very vastness. The legendary former FCC chairman knew a thing or two about television, having studied it for most of […]

By now, you’ve probably seen the chilling video showing the murder (yes that what it was) of Jordan Neely, a 24-year old New York man killed on the subway by a former Marine named Daniel Perry. Reaction to the murder has been polarized and complex.  Many progressives, such as Reps. Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Jamaal […]

In its infinite wisdom – or lack thereof – Congress recently gave the U.S. Internal Revenue Service $80 billion in new funding as part of the Inflation Reduction Act before the agency had a plan for spending it. It’s typical for Washington to do things that way – provide the funding first, figure out how […]

It has been a heavy few weeks for our state as we mourn the loss of fellow Mainers. It is so hard to wrap our heads around the fact that a mass shooting recently took place here, in the tight-knit community of Bowdoin. A grotesque act of violence devastated the town and left communities around […]

Chloe Garcia was a bundle of energy right from Day One, according to her mother Ruby Cardenas. Non-stop. Go, go, go. She would bounce in her baby bouncer for hours until she fell asleep. Ruby got Chloe into T-ball softball at age 5 to help channel her energy. Chloe was also a fighter. When her […]