“Yesterday, upon the stair I met a man who wasn’t there. He wasn’t there again today, Oh how I wish he’d go away!” Some readers may recall these lines from an old children’s poem. It comes to mind, because today the U.S. includes many people who are not there, either in the political process or […]

People experiencing homelessness are just people, in the same sense that people experiencing MS, or cancer, or old age, are just people. Here are some other parallel illustrations of the same idea. People with different skin colors are just people. Men, women, children, adolescents (whether old or young) are just people. People who follow different […]

Prom season is upon us. It’s wonderful to see the excitement on the faces of young people as they pose for photos in their front yards, dressed up in their finest duds. I hate to admit it, but I feel bad for these young people. As they stand there being photographed, enthralled by the last […]

Celebrate Bath graduate tradition Heads up! If you haven’t yet noticed, your local high school graduates might be looking down at you. As we all continue to search for silver linings from the last two years of necessary isolation, this is yet another positive outcome. With the help and expertise of our local photographer, Wendy […]

Oral arguments over the NECEC power line to Canada proposed by Central Maine Power were heard last week by the Maine Supreme Judicial Court (SJC). Now we wait for the court to rule on some highly consequential issues. To recap: After Hydro Quebec, which has surplus hydroelectric power to export, failed to connect with Massachusetts […]

Vote Ankeles These days it is frustrating even to talk about politics. Not only is everything super-partisan and tiresome, but too often the candidates are non-responsive to voters and apathetic in general. We have found an exception to this depressive miasma in Dan Ankeles. Over the past few years, I have contacted him a few […]

We’re living in gray times, bobbing in a sea of information where there is no longer much black or white. We have access to more content than ever — plus raging uncertainty about how much is fact or fiction. Some folks are convinced they can’t trust politicians or news reporters or even medical experts, and […]

Cats are said to have nine lives. Rasputin was said to have almost as many. If only the MeToo movement had the same brief lifespan. Alas, the pink hats and the accusations of abuse excavated many years after the fact are still part and parcel of the culture wars, as we have seen these past […]

Nearly seven decades after the U.S. Supreme Court’s unanimous landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the court’s declared goal of integrated education is still not yet achieved. American society continues to grow more racially and ethnically diverse. But many of the nation’s public K-12 schools are not well integrated and are instead […]