Letter
April 2019
New program offering kidney donation vouchers could help increase living donors
Maine Medical Center has done three surgeries that resulted in vouchers for kidney transplants.
View from Away: The Cabinet is bare
Turnover at the top levels of the Trump administration has set a modern record for turmoil. As of last week, with the departure of Linda McMahon from the Small Business Administration and Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen from the department of Homeland Security, 14 of President Donald Trump’s Cabinet members will have left their jobs. Now, nearly […]
Cynthia M. Allen: ‘Unplanned’ forces those willing to watch to see the reality of abortion
There is a scene in the HBO adaptation of the Stephen Ambrose tome, “Band of Brothers,” in which the men of Easy Company, out on patrol, come across a Nazi concentration camp. The German guards have abandoned the camp, and the prisoners who remain are but shadows of men — diseased, broken, starved and dying. […]
Our View: Asylum support bill invests in Maine’s future
Denying food, rent and health care assistance to asylum seekers won’t make us richer. Helping people get started will help the state grow.
Antique spinning wheels focus of talk April 24
Jan Cunningham, Brenda Page to give hands-on presentation at Vose Library.