From costs, to how care is provided, from our educational efforts, to who provides primary care, to reducing use of unnecessary technology and medications, the time is coming when we will shift toward a sustainable health care model, Carey Clark writes.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, News
If nothing else, recycle your torbichkas
What can each of us do about environmental degradation? It’s about recycling the small stuff, Dana Wilde writes.
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Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Compassion is sometimes the best option for police
When homeless people or others get into trouble, sometimes the best response is just to care, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
What’s it like, when the saints come marching?
When someone like Mother Theresa gets the call, what’s the moment like? Or what’s it like for those who don’t? JP Devine speculates on it.
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares, Local & State, News
Feelin’ the Bern at the Augusta Democratic caucus
For someone whose favorite form of March Madness comes every four years, the local caucus proved an inspiration, writes Liz Soares.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Farmington is a happenin’ town
An outing to restaurants and stores in the downtown provide a glimpse of what Waterville may become more like with a dorm downtown, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, Local & State, News
Downton and the election year: The good, the bad and the spoilers
The long, dreadful political winter has been made endurable by the Crawleys and friends, JP Devine writes.
Posted inColumns, Dana Wilde, Local & State, News
A winter from which I am trying to awake
Snowless February woods are sort of like a scene in a vaguely disturbing dream, writes Dana Wilde.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, News
Maine’s town meetings are the purest form of democracy
Politics are down to their purest form when the residents of Maine’s communities gather to determine what gets done and how their taxes will be spent, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine, News
The political maelstrom gives even a humorist pause
Trump’s rise is partially our fault for being asleep for the past eight years, and his ascension was foretold in the movies, JP Devine writes.