So, 1.4 million Palestinians huddle against the Egyptian border as Israel incessantly bombs Gaza. Today, Feb. 15, I read in news reports that Netanyahu has pulled out of cease-fire talks in Egypt. Over 28,000 people have already been killed in Gaza. This is not an eye for an eye but one eye for many and […]

I’m a social work student in the masters program at the University of Maine. I spent my undergraduate internship at a child welfare agency, specifically working with children who had been placed in foster care and doing supervised visitations with their biological parents. This is where I got to witness first-hand the foster care system […]

Nearly two decades before I was born, my mother had a safe and legal abortion — just weeks after the passage of Roe v. Wade. If not for that safe and legal access, her life would have been completely different. If she had been forced to have a child as a child, I would not […]

My father was a fundamentalist Baptist minister who died at the end of the 20th century. From the beginning of my life in the ’40s, I was taught my job as a Christian was to engage in “soul winning.” I was to ask a fellow traveler on Earth if they “personally knew Jesus Christ as […]

Regarding the Portland Museum of Art and its expansion: if all the recent clamor is about losing another historic building to make way for new architecture, why not save the old building by moving it? PMA already owns land on Free Street (parking lot and green space) where the YWCA once stood (demolished in 2006). […]

Recent events show the lasting destruction to all three branches of government by Donald Trump’s presidency and his absolutist rule of the MAGA movement. He tarnished the executive branch by selling Cabinet posts to million-dollar donors, extorting the president of Ukraine, his coup attempt, pandering to dictators, and his theft of classified documents. His dominance […]

Regarding the proposal of yet another Turnpike connector: hasn’t enough good Maine land already been torn up forever to create more routes to the “Almighty Automobile” Turnpike? Why torment this poor farmer, who helps produce so much of the organic farm products for the Portland community! And to even talk about the disturbance to the […]