It’s just plain hypocritical for the Republican Party of the state of Maine to indicate that, as a party, they are planning to censure Sen. Susan Collins. Really? Just a few short months ago, the party wholeheartedly supported Collins in a senatorial race against Sara Gideon. So the Maine Republican Party of Maine is casting […]

Kudos for the excellent article “Search for sovereignty” that fronted Tuesday’s paper. Staff Writer Colin Woodard’s Feb. 16 story balances Penobscot elder Donna Loring’s impressive professional life with important facts about Maine’s fraught relationship with the Indigenous people of our land. I urge our Legislature to take affirmative action on the recommendations of the Task […]

As a former naval officer and retired physician I am stunned and bewildered in the face of the national inefficiency and frank chaos around the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The chronically erratic, illogical and utterly dysfunctional delays and inconsistencies in vaccine delivery and associated communication to patients and the public at large defies analysis and […]

They say that this time it’s different, that although Donald Trump was acquitted, the love affair is over. I hope that’s true. After watching the brilliant case presented by the House managers, and seeing the results, I almost cried. That Republican senators gave a standing ovation to Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, then voted for […]

The fact that Donald Trump is guilty of inciting a riot and the resultant desecration of our nation’s Capitol is obvious to anyone but the blindest of jurors. Sadly, it was a foregone conclusion that Senate Republicans lacked the courage to convict. They are fearful of many things, most of which is the mob coming […]

I would like to take this opportunity to write about Jenna Mehnert, CEO of NAMI Maine (the Maine chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness), and her tireless efforts to transform an organization fraught with financial and legal challenges into a successful and well respected mental health advocacy agency. I joined the NAMI Maine […]

Central Maine Power must honor all signed solar interconnection agreements, without delay or attempted excuse. The cost of any system upgrades beyond what the solar developers had agreed to fund results from CMP’s incompetence and should not be borne by CMP’s ratepayers or by the developers. Instead, it should be funded by CMP’s shareholder, Avangrid, […]

Modern labor struggles frequently witness use of legal consultants hired to ensure a “union-free environment.” By 1979 such legal consultants had become a major industry in the nation, with annual sales of well over a half-billion dollars. Labor union records of the period indicated that out of 6,000 organizing campaigns, two-thirds of them witnessed some […]