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 […]

Most Mainers will remember Nirav Shah as the head of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, who diligently walked us through the COVID crisis. But he’s not only a doctor: he’s also a lawyer and economist, who has led government organizations, including as deputy director and then acting director of the U.S. Centers […]

I enjoyed reading about the skiers (boys and girls) to watch in Southern Maine. Our Alpine skiers have benefited from man-made snow for decades, but Nordic teams have been stuck with Mother Nature’s fickleness. This winter started strong, quickly became bare ground, then luckily bounced back with a large storm. Weeks of poor conditions is the norm; […]