This hungry search for names in the Epstein files is beginning to have a definite McCarthy stink to it. Perhaps no names should be made public until the Justice Department — or whoever — actually prosecutes people. Then folks can unleash their righteous indignation. Right now we’re damaging people regardless of how tenuous their connection to […]

Have you ever made a phone call to hear, “This call is being recorded for …,” then you proceed to talk to someone, ask questions, answer questions? Did you do a computer review of the person you will speak to, to make sure they meet your expectations for moral values before exposing yourself to being […]

Just one year ago, I didn’t know anything about the fraught issue of tribal sovereignty, and if I had, I wouldn’t have felt a personal stake in the matter. But that all changed last summer, after I spent several days on Indian Island with other educators learning about Wabanaki culture, history and native survivance. Nothing in […]

I appreciated Charles Todorich’s word salad lecturing us all (“‘White Guilt’ explains everything about race in America,” Feb. 8) that racism directed against people of color died a long time ago because of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. … or something?  Mr. Todorich’s sources on the subject of modern American race relations seem to be […]

On Jan. 28, I was scheduled for a 7 a.m. procedure at Maine Medical Center. On the way there, I saw a social media post featuring nurses discussing staffing shortages related to ICE activity and the fear some Black and brown colleagues felt about coming to work. While being prepped, a nurse handed me a […]

A Feb. 2 op-ed, arguing that crypto mining could support Maine’s aging energy grid, overlooks realities. While Bitcoin mines are framed as flexible grid assets, they operate like energy-intensive data centers, with continuous demand and lasting community impacts. Claims that operations can shut down “at the flick of a switch” ignore that profitability depends on […]

I was sad to hear about the death of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.  As a young assistant communications director at the interracial Chicago Urban League in the late 1960s and early 1970s, I had the privilege to serve as a liaison on several occasions between the Urban League and a coalition of Black and […]