I can’t believe the rhetoric I am hearing about ending support for Ukraine because we need to spend that money at home. I am disgusted by the lack of humanity. None of these people can understand what is at stake. We all go home every day to a nice warm home. The people of Ukraine […]

“If I hadn’t been a girl, I would’ve definitely been a drag queen!” – Dolly Parton The Tennessean has numerous times reiterated that during her illustrious career. Last week, Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee signed a bill that outlaws drag queen performances. This is how crazy the transphobic culture wars in red states have gotten. A […]

We should not raise the retirement age to 70 for Social Security. While we are living longer than the system ever expected, our bodies and minds have limits that come with age. Rather than raising the retirement age to 70, we should pay for the benefit with one or both of the following remedies. • […]

What is it with the conservative wing of the Republican Party and transphobia? This past week, at the 2023 Conservative Political Action Committee conference, numerous speakers urged their party to support legislation to criminalize any act of doctors and parents to offer gender-affirming care. Do they really think this is a winning political strategy? One […]

The recent killing of two pet dogs in Connecticut is just another example of why we need to restrict the year-round killing of our coyotes. This means no more pups starving to death in their dens because parents are being killed during pup season, night and day, with no rest for them; their fellow domestic […]

The Press Herald recently published a story about a Connecticut hunter who killed two German shepherds, thinking they were coyotes. They were, in fact, two beloved pets whose owners had been looking for them for weeks. They were killed with a crossbow, a weapon that causes massive internal bleeding resulting in death. The dogs are […]

The proposed legislation to expand abortion rights in Maine into the third trimester must be voted down. If my desire to be heard as an individual is supposed to be protected by law and represented by my elected officials, then that voice most certainly should be heard first from the womb of the pre-born baby. […]