The recent killing of Marlene McNeill at a group home in Portland should shake all of Maine. As an emergency room nurse, I am very familiar with workplace violence. It is not rare, it is routine. Caretakers are punched, kicked, spat on and threatened on a regular basis. Too often, these incidents are dismissed as […]

I believe Sen. Susan Collins expects us to be grateful that, by voting for the War Powers Resolution ending conflict in Iran, she was one of the few Republicans to support the latest effort to require Congress to do its job. We need Collins to do more. We need her to use her seniority and […]

Vice President JD Vance slipped into Maine earlier this month and claimed that he knew of $46 million in Medicaid fraud — without presenting a shred of evidence. If Vance truly knows about fraud, I call on him to share the details with the press and with law enforcement. It’s his sworn duty to uphold […]

It is clear as glass that our adaptable democracy is one of humanity’s successes but, when broken, glass shatters into countless pieces. We are close to shattering our environment. Democracy will fall close behind. Earth itself has a disease never before experienced by humans: global warming, caused by our carbon burning addiction. As an engineer, […]

Rep. Jared Golden’s recently introduced bill to freeze regulations to protect the North Atlantic right whale is ill-timed and unnecessary. The lobster industry has demonstrated a desire to protect this critically endangered species. And the state and federal government are working hard to proceed with development and public consideration of new rules that will protect […]