Family planning services are necessary for all Mainers, including transgender students like me. Consent education helps young people learn healthy relationships and keeps people of all ages and genders safe. Contraceptives not only prevent unplanned pregnancies, they can also manage symptoms of conditions including acne, endometriosis and perimenopause. Gender-affirming care allows transgender people to live […]

One imagines Sen. Susan Collins being haunted by her remark that Donald Trump learned “a pretty big lesson” from his first impeachment. But then again, one imagines Sen. Collins doing a lot of things that, while nevertheless expressing deep concern, she declines to do. The last weeks of lawless chaos remind us that the president […]

President Trump recently came before the nation on live TV to express his sorrow over the airplane/helicopter crash at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport. He said he spoke for the country and expressed condolences to the families of the victims civilian and military. Well done. He then left his prepared speech and rambled on about […]

I find it incredibly disingenuous for Sen. Susan Collins and her backers to take credit for finally opposing Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of defense. It seems clear that Donald Trump and his group figured out that the team could lose a couple of Republican votes and still get this dangerous man confirmed as the […]

Nate Bowditch’s Jan. 21 op-ed (“What canvassing in Maine’s 2nd District told me about America“) paints an incomplete picture. I too canvassed in the 2nd District and saw plenty of Harris-Walz signs, in spite of evidence of economic decline and Trump’s win. It was a colossal failure of leadership and imagination that allowed communities throughout […]

My heart sank this afternoon when I read that the president of the United States cut off funding for crucial, life-saving HIV/AIDS medications and programming in impoverished areas of our world. If my memory serves me correctly, this program was put in place by President George W. Bush as a strong act of humanitarianism and […]

I read with interest Anne Dodd’s Jan. 19 op-ed about her trepidation over Brunswick’s reassessment of a cottage she and her late spouse owned for decades when newcomers all around her are paying over $1 million in purchase prices (“No Mainer should have to sell their home because of rising property taxes”). We’re doing property […]