It’s a weekday and about a quarter to 6 on a warm, humid evening in July. I am riding my bike home from work and am slowly making my way up Preble Street hill in the paved and clearly marked bike lane. As I approach the top of the hill, a driver pulls up behind […]

I’m not eloquent, so I ask that you Google journalist Christopher D. Cook’s 2019 essay “The Problem With the Blue Angels” to see the several reasons that they should never return to Maine. They waste huge amounts of fossil fuels, waste our taxes, pollute the atmosphere, endanger the public and celebrate death. My wife and […]

To the parents who don’t want their child to wear a mask in school: Have the school give you a waiver form to sign saying that you will not hold the school administration, teachers, etc., responsible if your child gets sick from COVID or any of the variants. It’s time to put this issue to […]

Unlike the Bible’s manna from heaven, the $6 trillion to $9 trillion federal COVID-19 relief spending must be paid back, and until it is, if ever, we and our grandchildren’s grandchildren will be paying interest on it and their dollar will be devalued. It is important to appreciate that “trillion” is an astronomical number. If […]

I read a news article last evening about the staff at Northern Light Health being 88 percent vaccinated. The article noted 1,200 employees (or 10 percent of their workforce) have opted to get the vaccine in the past five weeks, and 12 percent of their workforce has not received it. Twelve percent of their workforce? […]

​The many health care workers who are taking a stand against the COVID vaccine mandate are doing so to protect their right (and the right of every Mainer) to freedom of medical choice. These are exactly the type of people we need working within the health care system: people who value personal autonomy, bodily integrity […]

I am grateful. It seems to me that Gov. Mills and Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav Shah, M.D., are the only two adults in the room who believe in science, consider the data and then take decisive action to protect Maine’s vulnerable medical population while others dither away mindlessly. The mandate […]

I am a certified nursing assistant of 16 years in a long-term care unit at Damariscotta. I care for the residents I serve. We are their second families that they see and depend on every day. To be told I can no longer do my job is heartbreaking. I feel horrible this has to happen. […]