In my new role at the Office of Child and Family Services, I’ll start by tackling the most urgent problem: unmanageable caseloads.
Columns
News columns from staff writers and contributors to the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Maine, 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.
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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.
Posted inColumns, Opinion
Opinion: Maine’s teachers need to be paid more
Tackling our teacher shortage won’t be possible without increasing teachers’ minimum starting salary,
Posted inColumns, J.P. Devine
On the Edge: New Year’s resolutions
J.P. Devine is resolving to improve his life while waiting for the next storm.
Posted inAmy Calder, Columns, Maine, Morning Sentinel
Reporting Aside: Anson man with Down syndrome finds purpose in cutting cloth
James Lynds has turned a passion for hard work into a business cutting clothing into rags to sell to auto mechanics, dealerships and other businesses, Amy Calder writes.
Posted inJ.P. Devine, Life & Culture, Movie Review J.P. Devine
‘Freud’s Last Session’ a duel between Satan and God
Anthony Hopkins, left, and Matthew Goode in a scene from“Freud’s Last Session.” 14 Sunset, LB Entertainment, Last Session Productions “Freud’s Last Session,” directed by Matt Brown (“The Man Who Knew Infinity”) is a dark film we don’t need right now, but it brings us the gifted Anthony Hopkins (“Silence of the Lambs,” an even darker […]
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Opinion: Maine’s Constitution must be clear: Reproductive freedom is a human right
The U.S. Supreme Court kicked the duty to fight for reproductive rights back to states. So let’s fight.