Teaching math, my students and I were always looking for patterns. Patterns can help predict. Patterns offer efficiency and accuracy. Patterns can be a scaffolding to a new understanding. When the Annunciation School students were shot in church, the mayor was criticized for his response. When Charlie Kirk was shot, we are being criticized and harmed […]

I’m a political junkie.  If the only election in Maine was for a dogcatcher in a hamlet I never heard of, I’d follow the coverage as if it were a congressional race. I appreciate the fervor demonstrated by Mr. Gary Anderson in his support of Graham Platner (“We need to make sure Graham Platner goes […]

Really? Flags at half-staff to honor Charlie Kirk? This is the young man who openly and passionately supported Donald Trump and his movement to destroy American democracy, and who gained wealth and power while doing so.  This is the young man who has advocated so strongly for supporting a president who ultimately will be responsible for […]

I write on behalf of a group of Maine health care workers and allies who have joined the People’s Hunger Strike (peopleshungerstrike.org) for Gaza. Israel continues to starve children to death in Gaza and famine spreads under the rain of U.S.-made bombs.  In the United States, we in health care often struggle to figure out […]

For over 40 years, HEAP has helped homeowners and renters pay heating costs. In a state like Maine, heating homes is a life-or-death matter. In 2024, the HEAP program served 52,210 households statewide — our families, neighbors, co-workers and friends.     The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) is a locally led program and the backbone of […]

I was absolutely stunned by a recent letter to the editor (“Poor planning made a bad situation worse,” Aug. 28) that seemed to treat the tragic death of Erin Hayne as little more than a nuisance to someone’s commute. The writer, concerned only with being inconvenienced by the closure of Route 302, had the audacity […]

My letter is in response to Mr. Ernest Lamarre’s letter of Sunday, Sept. 21 (“Politically, Maine isn’t what is used to be“). With all due respect to Mr. Lamarre, I wonder if people with different opinions than his were not referred to as “communists” and “wackos” Maine would be a safer and better all around […]