I have watched the growing panic over the May 7 Real ID deadline. When I moved to Maine two years ago and applied for my Maine driver’s license, I asked for the Real ID version. The otherwise super helpful person on the other side of the window at my local Department of Motor Vehicles office […]

Otherwise known as … the news.

Stunned! That’s what I was when I opened the May 4 Opinion section of the Sunday paper and discovered that the political cartoons of the week had been replaced by an expanded letters section. Those missing cartoons are the best part of the paper to me, a place I can rely on to put some […]

It aims to ‘protect’ us from voter fraud, an issue that doesn’t exist.

Just how low can they go? An article appeared in the April 27 edition of the Sun Journal exposing the lost funding from terminated grants by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“Feds freeze community paramedicine funding across Maine”). It’s becoming more difficult to find a primary doctor, hospitals are closing, and this […]

On June 14, there will be another opportunity for Mainers to demonstrate against the current administration in Washington, and here’s why I think Mainers should participate loudly, wherever they can. For decades now, Americans have accused presidents they didn’t like of being “fascists” and even portrayed them as Hitleresque. I have always taken Hitler comparisons […]

Recent years have tested one of Maine’s finest qualities: It’s a purple state where our identity as lovers of Maine outweighs our political differences. The Portland Hearts of Pine home opener last Sunday displayed all of our potential as Mainers united. The event was so totally about our state, from “MAINE” on our players’ jerseys […]

Three bills currently before the Legislature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs — LDs 38, 397 and 1149 — call for voters to present photographic identification to vote. LD 1149 proposes more than that, by severely limiting absentee voting and adding other requirements. Its provisions would create barriers that will block our constitutional right to […]

I’m a 75-year-old, ex-Catholic, agnostic atheist and a lifelong homosexual writing in reply to the article on Pope Francis and homosexuality in the April 25 Sun Journal. It was reported there that although the late pope endeavored to make the church more welcoming of LGBTQ+ Catholics, he nonetheless upheld the traditional teaching that homosexual activity […]