Thank you to Shawn Yardley and Stephanie Watson-Todd for their Maine Voices column that clearly outlined where we’re failing Maine’s children and families. (“We have an opportunity right now to make families stronger,” March 12). It’s simple: We either provide the kinds of supports that families with young children need now, or we pay for […]

We hear it time and again: China is threatening the United States’ position as the global economic leader. We need to heed this warning and encourage Congress to take action to put the U.S. first by enacting legislation that grows our competitiveness, increases innovation, and enhances our national security while addressing workforce shortages through legislation […]

In a recent letter (March 17) James Bilancia refers to remarks by Sen. Angus King on the rise in gas prices and concludes that, in addition to supply constraints, the increase “is also due to sheer price gouging by big oil companies amid the rapid recovery of jobs and wages.” In his comments on the […]

We have a perfectly safe nuclear reactor just 93 million miles away. We don’t need any nuclear reactors on Earth’s surface, or fossil-fuel-powered generators. Nearly every township in Maine has at least 20 acres of south-facing hillside no longer needed for pasture or hayfield. Those can become the sites of our solar panel fields. Combined […]

Human beings spend too much money on madmen with bombs. And Putin isn’t the only madman. It could happen to anyone drunk on power. Imagine if Donald Trump, for example, had invaded Mexico, with the support of robber barons eager to claim Mexican oilfields. Imagine if they called Mexicans rapists, Nazis, started bombing apartment complexes […]

Hey, who’s in charge here? Who’s the decider? This will be the cry heard throughout Portland City Hall from department heads, staff and citizens alike if the Charter Commission proceeds down its path toward confusion, paralysis, unaccountability, added expenses and failure of common sense in the management of Portland. The commission’s Governance Committee is struggling […]

There may be GOP senators who may want to cast doubt on Ketanji Brown Jackson’s ability to come to balanced and fair judgements as a future Supreme Court justice because of her work in the defense of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. They might want to take a look back at our revolutionary history, where they […]

I have spent 35 years in Maine as a board certified pediatric dentist, trying to provide dental care to as many children as I could. Too many of these children came to me with dental disease that could have been prevented through solutions like the one proposed by L.D. 1501: “An Act to Protect Oral […]