A lively U.S. Senate primary is a good thing. But let’s not forget what needs to happen next.
Op-Eds
Opinion columns from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Fear of risk is killing community | Opinion
We’ve let fear of others and injury outweigh our better judgment in stepping up to volunteer.
What I haven’t yet heard from Graham Platner and Janet Mills | Opinion
I’m hoping for some answers from the Democratic front-runners in Maine’s 2026 U.S. Senate race.
Maine’s hottest Senate race is a strange toss-up | Opinion
I will continue to watch and listen to Graham Platner. I will also listen, again and again, to Gov. Janet Mills.
We must act to save barred owls caught in the crosshairs | Opinion
A U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service plan would slaughter 450,000 of the forest raptors. The federal government should not be in the business of determining that one species has the right to exist over another.
The truth of the Democrats’ shutdown deal | Jim Fossel
This fight over Affordable Care Act subsidies shows that, far from being the sweeping solution Democrats portrayed it as, the Affordable Care Act was another patchwork fix.
Service, not ideology, is why I’m running for the Maine House | Opinion
I’m planning on running a campaign rooted in discipline and facts, not chaos and rhetoric, and hope to earn your vote as the next representative for District 88.
Overcoming personal fear of Alzheimer’s can serve the public good | Opinion
Working together, there’s a lot we can do to confront this disease.
Maine school district tells transgender students ‘know your place’ | Opinion
The idea that we need to ‘protect’ school-age children from indignities in the bathroom or on the athletic playing field is delusional.
Virtue signaling is out, vice signaling is in | Victoria Hugo-Vidal
Saying deliberately hurtful or dangerous things ‘for fun’ will take us a down a dark path.