A few years ago, a woman fainted in class at York County Community College. What had happened? She had to make a choice between paying her bills and feeding herself. This is a dilemma that many people in Maine have to face. When then-Gov. Paul LePage cut the budget for food stamps, people who previously […]

L.D. 798, a bill currently before the Legislature, will protect children, the very old and the very ill by ending nonmedical exemptions to vaccinations. I was raised in a home that didn’t believe in immunizations. The first time I was confronted with the consequences of my parents’ decision was when I was pregnant with my […]

If, like me, you are feeling that your efforts to “reduce, reuse, recycle” are insufficient to restore the planet to health for your children and grandchildren, there is reason to hope. I was telling a friend of my feeling of powerlessness in the face of increasing climate disasters – floods, hurricanes and health affected by […]

As an Air Force veteran, a social worker, and executive director of the Maine Student Veteran Alliance, one major problem that service members face, when they leave military service, is income stability. When I was in the service, we didn’t need the Family Medical Leave Act. Our command structure would do their best to ensure […]

Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King, and U.S. Rep. Chellie Pingree, must do everything in their power to reverse Attorney General William Barr’s order to direct immigration judges to deny bail to migrants. When this comes into effect, in 90 days, it will further undermine the basic rights of people seeking safety in the United […]

I want to thank South Portland’s City Council for having passed ordinances that ban the use of pesticides, which have recently been found legally responsible for causing cancer in humans. And I appreciate their continued attention to these issues and concern for the health and welfare of our community and beyond. Now South Portland is […]

The pathetic rhetoric that occupies our city government on the subject of caring for the homeless has reached the point of pointless. After countless meetings and backroom discussions sans the real stakeholders, Commercial Street and Riverside (again) are the best they have to offer. Apparently, ignorance is bliss. The methodology and decision-making process has been […]