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 […]

Why are people not showing up to work? I finally get it.  After numerous job offers, I’d show up to the first day of work — sometimes not really met with a smile or handshake. A training in a windowless room with not even a bottled water as a welcome offering. Not even told where […]

With the spread of massive AI data centers across America, the Maine Legislature should work quickly to protect Maine. Already such ventures are not allowed to access the Maine State Business Development Tax Incentive Program. It is unfortunate that the governor vetoed the 180-day moratorium, but nevertheless much can be done. The three main dangers […]