In Gaza, with over 1,000 trucks loaded with life-saving aid that the government of Israel will not allow in, 14,000 babies and infants risked starving to death. Here in Waldo County, there are approximately 1,746 children who are under age 5. By comparison, it means that every child we know — our own children — […]

There’s a lot wrong with the bill before Congress, such as the fact that it gives huge tax breaks to the wealthy while cutting back funds awarded to Medicaid and other worthy programs. But even more scary in the bill is the provision that would restrict our government’s ability to respond to an incident of […]

With each administration of late we’ve seen both political parties demonstrate their addiction to ever-greater doses of executive power without regard to constitutional limits. In our constitutional structure, the framers left it primarily to Congress to check the executive. But for decades Congress has found it politically expedient to ignore many of the tools given […]

For years, the Maine Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has been criticized for its shortcomings and nothing ever changes. Gov. Mills and her DHHS supervisory staff need to have their hands slapped. A recent news report (“Death of Lewiston 4-year-old puts Maine’s child welfare failures back in spotlight,” June 4) stated numerous problems […]

President Trump is taking federal funds away from Mainers who are desperately trying to pay the rent and put food on the table. He’s eliminating funding to organizations like Good Shepherd, which are a stopgap for starving Maine families. He’s already eliminated funding for children starving and dying overseas. He’s done nothing about the economy. […]

On Oct. 1, 2024, Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur on the situation in Palestine, included the following in her report on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories: “Since its establishment, Israel has treated the occupied people as a hated encumbrance and threat to be eradicated, subjecting millions of Palestinians, for generations, […]

As the Congress ponders the budget bill for the next year, I am writing to encourage the Maine congressional delegation, and particularly Sen. Susan Collins, as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee, to do everything in their power to protect the clean energy tax credits contained in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022. These tax […]

Why does our senator continue as a Republican? The House has sent her a bill that cuts $1 trillion to $1.5 trillion from Medicaid, food stamps and even Medicare (not to mention renewing the 2017 TCJA tax cuts, resulting in CBO’s nonpartisan $3.8 trillion of net deficits) along with abrogating the ability of the judiciary […]