Where are our political leaders who have professed much concern over mitigating climate change? Gov. Mills, to her credit, established the Climate Council in 2019, composed of groups of climate change experts and tasked them to provide a plan of action in one year. In announcing the plan, “Maine Won’t Wait” she pledged that her […]

Sen. Susan Collins’ proposed tax on electric vehicles fails to take into account the external costs incurred by the use of gasoline-powered vehicles. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, an average gasoline-powered vehicle in the U.S. releases 11,435 pounds of carbon into the atmosphere a year while an average electric vehicle only contributes 3,774 […]

Winston Churchill remarked: “democracy is the worst form of government – except for all the others that have been tried.” A core political challenge is how to transfer power from one governing entity to another, and from one generation to another, without periodic societal meltdowns. For all its warts, some form of democracy, with broad-based buy-in, has […]

If Maine’s environmental integrity wasn’t at stake I would be laughing in my Moxie. I mean, the whole New England Clean Energy Connect debacle is just a perverted comedy of errors. Back room deals about Maine public lands – check. No need to involve the legislators because clear-cutting public lands doesn’t qualify as a significant […]

I appreciate efforts by the editorial staff of the Maine Sunday Telegram to not allow baseless racist accusations to get published. But apparently, it is OK to throw your own race under the bus using baseless analogies and altering historical facts. Is that why columnist Bill Nemitz was allowed to have his column printed (“In […]

In addition to the question about repurposing defense contractors to fight climate change that was posed in Thomas Kircher’s July 19 letter, I would add these: Why is not Congress dropping everything they are doing to come together to pass meaningful, effective climate change legislation? Why is the Senate quibbling over a few billion dollars […]

My mother informed me years ago that I did not like to sleep when I was a baby. She said I would lie awake in my crib for hours, make my baby noises and look from side to side at everything. I feel I have that same curiosity about the world and my surroundings to […]