The speed with which President Donald Trump and Elon Musk are transforming the USA into a likeness of the former Soviet Union is truly frightening. Our democratic republic is turning into a fascist dictatorship right before our eyes. Trump sides with Vladimir Putin against our allies in Ukraine. He plots to take over Gaza, Greenland […]

The Maine Legislature is considering a tax increase on tobacco products and, as a public health professional with over a decade of experience working with the youth in our communities, I am in full support of this proposal. Maine’s overall cancer rate is the highest in New England and Maine’s tobacco tax is among the […]

I want to thank Sen. Susan Collins for taking a principled stand and siding with the Trump administration on the issue of Title IX. The ongoing conflict between how the Mills administration and the federal government interpret Title IX must be resolved. I strongly agree with the federal government’s position: biological males should not compete […]

As a former library assistant for 16 years at the Falmouth Memorial Library, I am well aware of the basic importance of a library. What I experienced in my years as library support staff, as well as in my own life, goes well beyond the value of the books one checks out. Libraries are lifelines […]

Congratulations, Republicans and others who voted for Trump. We now officially live under a dictator. Trump kidnapped people off our streets, with no due process (just take Trump’s word that they’re bad guys!), and shipped them to a foreign dungeon. And now, he has openly defied the Supreme Court on live TV by declaring that […]

It was Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s drawn face, her saying “I’m afraid,” that hit me most viscerally, more even than the accumulating political shocks and utter disregard for law seen in the last few months. Does the hollow media creature currently occupying the White House actually have a goon squad he can dispatch to physically harm […]

One of the pillars of our democracy is the Fifth Amendment. It reads as follows: “No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in […]