Dana Wilde ponders the philosophic implications of creatures from the sea.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Opinion: The people are supposed to choose whom they please
I believe Secretary Bellows’ recent legalistic logic is easily unraveled.
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Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: A bad day for skin
J.P. Devine remembers a time when he was young and handsome with black hair and smooth, youthful skin, talking us into buying stuff we didn’t need.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Opinion: What it’s really like to drive an electric car in Maine
Everybody seems to have an opinion about electric vehicles these days. Three years in, here’s mine.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Opinion: 51 years after Roe v. Wade, the struggle for reproductive autonomy continues
On Monday, a host of brave Mainers will testify in favor of strengthening reproductive rights in the state constitution.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Opinion: It’s my job to keep Maine’s children safe – here’s how I plan to do it
In my new role at the Office of Child and Family Services, I’ll start by tackling the most urgent problem: unmanageable caseloads.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Local & State, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Waterville soup kitchen offers a hot meal, a warm place
The Lighthouse Waterville Area Soup Kitchen on Monday opened an afternoon warming center and has launched a new fundraising campaign, the $100 Club, seeking 1,800 people to donate $100 each to fund the kitchen for a year.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Oppenheimer,’ the Frankenstein’s monster that changed our world
“I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.” A verse from the Bhagavad Gita, spoken by Oppenheimer while viewing the successful test of the first bomb. J. Robert Oppenheimer. A name forever burned in history and largely forgotten. Japanese cities like Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the two cities our bombers destroyed at the cost of great […]
Posted inColumns, Liz Soares
Thinking Things Through: Watching the weather change
Liz Soares contemplates the accelerating changes of our climate and wonders if our attitudes need to change, too.