We Mainers may believe we achieved something useful in the Nov. 2 election, but I, for one, have trouble seeing what that is. Our neighbors in New England were willing to pay for access to clean electricity generated in Quebec and delivered to Lewiston that Mainers would probably, with some negotiating, have access to as […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact across the globe, with millions of lives and livelihoods lost, unlike anything we have experienced in decades. The last time the entire world was this focused on a pandemic threat was over two decades ago, when HIV/AIDS was killing almost 4,000 people every day and new infections […]

In the fight to defeat COVID-19, we need to redefine the term “fully vaccinated.” It has been commonly used to denote the number of people or the percentage of the population who have received at least two doses of the mRNA vaccines or the one shot of Johnson & Johnson. But it is quickly becoming […]

I was pleased to read the Nov. 24 Maine Voices op-ed, in which Shirley Hager and James McCarthy urge citizens to take action instead of just speaking words. In this case, a very important action is to secure tribal sovereignty through L.D. 1626. Write your legislators. Encourage them to vote “yes” for L.D. 1626. Maine […]

In response to the Kyle Rittenhouse verdict, for the Aug. 25, 2020, shootings in Kenosha, Wisconsin: It was impossible for Mr. Rittenhouse to have acted in self-defense when he walked into the Kenosha demonstration while carrying a loaded semiautomatic rifle, because, by doing so, he was responsible for perpetrating the entire series of tragic events […]

Something is broken in the state of Maine, and in January we have the opportunity to set it right. The 41-year-old Settlement Acts are currently barring Maine tribes from accessing federal rights, including clean water and criminal jurisdiction over their own communities. At the same time, the so-called “settlement” of acres that were to be […]