We would like to thank the Maine State Legislature’s Health and Human Services Committee for its recent leadership and unanimous support for strengthening and protecting the Fund for a Healthy Maine (FHM), a cornerstone of Maine’s public health and prevention efforts. One bill directs a portion of the state’s tobacco excise tax revenue to the […]

There have been a lot of words bandied about by this ignominious administration, since CBP and ICE murdered Renee Good and Alex Pretti, most of which have been used to deflect blame or cause anger. What I haven’t heard from a single one of those soul vacuums is anything even remotely resembling an apology.  I […]

This is just a comment about the commitment of local business to local causes. In the list of businesses that were shutting down last week, or not shutting down but making a donation in support of the national strike in support of the anti-ICE movement, there was not one national chain that I could find. […]

Women’s and girls’ sports exist for one reason: to give women and girls a fair, safe place tocompete. That principle should be non-controversial. Yet under Democratic leadership — and with Janet Mills as governor — Maine has been pushed to abandon it. Gov. Mills has not stood up for women. Instead, she openly defied efforts […]

I was wishing I could go back East.  I know a bit about the people living in my great-grandfather’s old home in Jonesport, Maine, after all. Isn’t that enough? Then the radio announced that they had gone into Maine.   The story of the one-sided Battle of Venezuela had abruptly ended, and it made me wonder: Was it […]

Our country’s government has been preempted. The grown-ups cower within their little circles of privilege, while a bullying leader — whose mantra is “I want” — tests the limits of his power, inflating and flexing his ego as he deploys his new toys: the U.S. military, the once heroic team that won World War II […]

Nirav Shah has decided to run for governor and lots of people, remembering him from our COVID shutdown days, are supporting his candidacy. A word of caution … Shah’s background in disease prevention does not translate into the leadership skills Maine needs in a governor. Shah brings no legislative or executive experience. Can he build coalitions, […]

What would we expect if the long promised second coming of Christ were to be today in the United States of America? He suddenly descends to a street in Minneapolis with the intent of spreading the gospel of love, understanding, forgiveness and the support and care for our neighbors and fellow men and women. A brown-skinned man […]