I have researched and extensively published on the subjects of nuclear radiation hazards and alternate electrical energy production. In his May 24 letter to the editor extolling the virtues of nuclear power, Ivan Most, Sc.D., used the Navy’s experience with nuclear-powered vessels as a basis for promoting the use of nuclear reactors for producing electricity. […]

I met Miriam Whitehouse 25 years ago through the High School Music Boosters. As president of the Boosters, Miriam created a team of 60 volunteers and raised $150,000. As the former executive director of the Senior Center, I volunteered on the Committee on Aging. One of our most important projects was the creation of the […]

Please join me in voting for outstanding candidates Ben Grant and Sarah Lentz for the at-large seats on the Portland Board of Public Education on June 14. They both have kids in Portland Public Schools, and they both offer thoughtful, engaged perspectives on continuing our work on equity and achievement. Crucially, they are the only […]

It’s with great ease that I endorse the Hon. Tom Tyler for House District 106, serving part of Windham. Experience matters in serving Windham’s people in Augusta. With this comes the ability to build fruitful relationships with stakeholders and lawmakers; steward legislation through a difficult process, and fully understand the implications of policy prior to […]

I am the mother of a transgender son and the grandmother of a 7-year-old, the son of my son. I am heavy-hearted. What happens to my grandson in school, when he shares about his family and confidently mentions that his father is transgender? Will his peers be naive and the teacher basically gagged and unable […]

If every lawmaker in this country would take one minute tonight to imagine that it was their son or daughter, grandchild, niece or nephew who did not return from their second-, third- or fourth-grade classroom today and instead was lying motionless in a hospital morgue, then we might have a chance at enacting common-sense gun […]

As grieving friends and families in Buffalo, New York, were burying their loved ones, murdered by a young man whose mind was poisoned by conspiracy theories and right-wing “dog whistles,” another 18-year-old across the country in Texas was slaughtering innocent 8- to 10-year-olds and their teachers. When does this stop? It is easier for an […]

Our appetite for violence takes precedence over anything else, courtesy of a wealth-saturated lobby that emphasizes the notion of guns as proxy for freedom until it is cemented in suggestible minds, immovable, immutable for anything, including the gut-wrenching, unthinkable loss of young life. The National Rifle Association must be amputated from politics – the enormous […]