I am a person living with a handicapping condition. I’ve voted in every election since I became eligible, and like many, I use absentee ballots to do so. What I do not appreciate is how opponents of voter ID laws use people like me as examples to argue against these measures. It’s offensive to suggest […]

On the Nov. 4 ballot, the voters of Maine have a chance to endorse the Extreme Risk Protection Order, or red flag law, which will enable families to approach courts to directly remove weapons from people in crisis. We cannot allow another Lewiston to happen in our state or in our schools. If the Lewiston […]

The administration’s recently enacted cuts to Medicaid will cause 40,000 Mainers to lose health care by 2026, and another 31,000 to become uninsured by 2027. In addition, the Medicaid dollars that are being withheld today will explode future costs and diminish workforce capacity due to unnecessarily poor health outcomes that could, and should, have been […]

Should Sen. Susan Collins consider her career in jeopardy having voted against the big beautiful (disaster) bill? She is only partly in the camp of senators who have abdicated their roles and displayed obscene fealty while ignoring their constituents. They simply are not doing their jobs. The slashed funds had already been approved by a […]