I submit this letter on behalf of the citizens of 75 State Street, who collaborated over the last week in writing it. Ukraine’s President Zelensky pleads for a groundswell of protest from around the world against Putin for Russia’s unprovoked attack on its neighbor, Ukraine. Who better to speak out about the horrors of war […]

Here we go again. The money our government is spending to control PFAS contamination is phenomical. Where were they initially in preventing this deadly forever chemical as it was being manufactured and used in many applications and now has polluted many Maine farms that used sludge as fertilizer? The very government that supposedly is created […]

In his March 9 letter to the editor, “Carbon fee is key weapon against Putin, global warming,” Chris Beeuwkes pointed out twin benefits of having federal policy that would put a price on carbon – with monthly dividend rebates going to U.S. households. (As in the Energy Innovation and Carbon Dividend Act, energyinnovationact.org/.) He noted […]

This year, the Maine Legislature has spent a lot of time discussing the emerging issue of PFAS contamination in our state’s soils, waterways and food chain. Known as forever chemicals, this class of chemical bioaccumulates and is now being found in produce, eggs and even milk. It’s a big problem that is bound to get […]

If America has learned anything since our founding, it is that building a democracy is often messy. Competing interests and arrogance of the party in power is often a tit-for-tat game that keeps our nation struggling to find a balance between the parties and their ideals. The alternative to our messy democracy is often an […]

This letter is to encourage support for L.D. 756, An Act Regarding Criminal Services for Juveniles, and shut the doors of Long Creek Youth Development Center for the last time. There is evidence to show that incarceration of youth is harmful, does not promote protection and is costly to the communities of Maine. Youth should […]

In December, my son Adam Nordell and his wife, Johanna Davis, learned that their farm in Unity had been contaminated with PFAS through the state-sponsored sewage sludge spreading program in the early 1990s. Their well, their soil, their bodies and most of their crops were tested and shown to be heavily laden with these so-called […]