Health care “repeal and reform” is a mess, and both parties must share the responsibility for what now appears to be a national crisis. It’s worth recalling the essential elements of the Affordable Care Act – Obamacare – that have led to the crisis. The ACA extended health insurance coverage to tens of millions of […]

I’m turning the focus back to work and family after a simultaneously rewarding and trying legislative session. We still have some legislative business to complete and there is ongoing committee work surrounding adult-use marijuana, but I’ll have reprieve from jackets and ties for days at a time. First, the budget: in a nearly unanimous vote […]

Florida is like junk food. It’s okay in small doses, but overlong exposure to its artificial preservatives will eventually kill you. Color-wise it even has a candy-coated veneer. Every time I go back I’m reminded of this. Traveling to Orlando for work a couple of weeks ago, I took a shuttle from the airport to […]

I think people should donate money to puffins because they are cute and they are part of our Maine society. Save the puffins. Ben Miller Fourth Grade, CK Burns Elementary School Saco

Today I am here to talk about a neraly extinct animal that is being brought back. It is called the puffin. You see, the puffin at first was being hunted for food, but over time and centuries, they had been mass hunted for both food and feathers. To stop that and let them repopulate, they […]

I am going to give you some reasons why you should donate money for puffins. Puffins have been killed for many years, but they mostly die when they are in the ocean or when gulls eat them. Maybe you can help support the National Audubon Society’s Project Puffin by adopting a puffin for $100. Puffins […]

Schools all over Maine are “adopting” puffins. I think that you guys could maybe capture gulls and other predatory birds that could harm puffins and move them away from puffins. If I were to make more adults “adopt” more puffins to make more ads on television, people can make a difference. Jacob Raymond Fourth Grade, […]

There’s a problem. Puffins are dying and I need you to publish this letter so people cana stop killing puffins. One reason why people should stop killing puffins is that there are already under 300,000 of them left. Another is that they are a beautiful species. They are blcak and white and have a beautiful […]

We should raise money to help puffins because they are close to being endangered, so if we don’t help them, they might become extinct. People have tried to help them before by putting into law that you can’t kill puffins. And that helped some, but we want to have a lot of them. Before the […]