Maine’s environment is our economy. We can have pickerel and payrolls. These tired — but true — slogans have defined much of our political rhetoric for decades. Perhaps it’s time to change the discussion. This was my thought as I sat in on a “conversation about the environment” hosted by gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler last […]

When Facebook recently lifted its restriction on public posts by teenagers, some privacy scholars applauded the move as a win for parents — offering them a chance to teach their children about digital accountability. They may be overstating the case, however.

On Nov. 5, Mainers go to the polls to vote on five bond proposals approved by the Legislature earlier this year. These bonds would provide more than $149 million for our state’s aging transportation infrastructure, higher-education system and National Guard facilities.

Nothing surprised me in Maine politics over the last two weeks save for someone penning the definitive book about Maine Gov. Paul LePage before I had the chance to publish my own political tell-all tome about the life, times and controversies of LePage.

Once upon a time, when the Earth’s crust was barely cool, I was a junior in high school and it was time for chemistry class. I was wild about atoms and molecules and now, at last, I was going to learn formally about them.

The interesting thing about the truth is that hard facts don’t bend to political spin.

A few years ago, I served on a panel as part of a National Academy of Sciences study titled “America’s Climate Choices.” One of the takeaway lessons from that study was that carbon dioxide has a very long residence time in the atmosphere, up to 1,000 years.