What an opportunity the state of Maine missed. Mainers had a chance to advertise to people from all corners of our great country. Our hotels, our restaurants, our entertainment, up and down our beautiful coastline, on and around our freshwater lakes, our mountaintops, our forest, our rivers, our local seafood, and all the businesses that draw in […]

Wind, water and wood have powered Maine’s economy since before our nation’s founding, with Maine rivers unlocking Maine’s forests to ports famous for shipbuilding. As we celebrate America’s 250th birthday, these heritage industries continue to innovate to power our economy.  The University of Maine and the Maine Technology Institute support researchers and entrepreneurs making biofuels […]

People are curious about how someone with progressive spinal degeneration can participate in a demonstration with such a condition. As someone that has lived with this condition, that has worsened over 30-plus years, I can say that it isn’t easy. I pay for it for hours or days later. When others see people like me […]

Ultra-rich fascists, some of whom are Jewish, would have everyone believe that U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner is “antisemitic” for calling out the Zionist American Israel Public Affairs Committee lobby. It was AIPAC that entered the 2026 election cycle with a reported war chest of over $100 million to defeat candidates who speak out against […]

The House Appropriations Committee recently advanced a Fiscal Year 2027 funding bill that maintains $246.5 million for the nation’s tobacco prevention and cessation efforts. As the Senate begins its work on the legislation, I urge Sen. Susan Collins to support this funding level at a minimum.  Preventing tobacco addiction is far less expensive than treating […]

In this season of bugs, when the soundtrack of the outdoors has always been composed of the buzz of black flies and the whine of mosquitoes, there is an eerie quiet coming over the woods. Recently, I’ve been in places wherein I’d have been just so much bug food in the 1980s and I have […]

May I quietly suggest, at this time of social and political upheaval in our America, that we citizens gain a copy of the Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence for study? We might have it visibly available in the home for family perusal or study. Tom FallonRumford

Having just read, in the Guardian, that the Supreme Court revoked Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for Haitians and Syrians left this writer feeling like he had been “gut punched.” Hopefully, those conservatives who made this vote will have a hard time sleeping at night knowing that, by deporting these folks, their vote will be sending […]