As a former student and youth from Maine, I appreciate all of the strides our state has made toward a healthy environment over these past few years. Everyone deserves access to climate education. Climate education is vital knowledge for today’s youth to receive. As youth, we face the dark aftermath of the climate crisis. Thankfully, […]

I am an 81-year-old woman who attended the Jan. 6 Day of Remembrance vigil at Monument Square in Portland. I understood that it was to be a peaceful and family-appropriate gathering. It was not. As it happened, I found myself linking arms with another woman. We stood between the counterprotesters and an increasingly frustrated group […]

Sen. Susan Collins’ recent suggestion on national television that she might be open to considering Donald Trump for another term as president left me aghast. For someone who claims careful deliberation in her legislative actions, to even consider that Trump might – in any way – serve in the best interest of our country is […]

The Republican Party keeps harping on their “legitimate political discourse,” known to most as the Jan. 6 insurrection. I find it ironic, that back in 1970, Ohio Republican Gov. James Rhodes ordered the Ohio National Guard to a student demonstration at Kent State University. The tragic shooting death of four students became a rallying cry […]

I marvel at the calm way the Red Cross blood team works. When I arrived at the South Portland Community Center last Wednesday, they were an hour behind schedule. And right now they are working against the clock because area hospitals only have a half-day supply on hand, when they really need a five-day supply. […]

Re: “Commentary: Whoopi Goldberg got it all wrong on the Holocaust. But if she can learn, we all can” (Feb. 4): Whoopi Goldberg got it right, in my opinion. She was not uninformed and she did not make a misstatement. She was co-hosting ‘The View” and she was giving her view. In describing the atrocities […]

I’ve recently read and heard several unsettling stories regarding some states’ worries about critical race theory being taught in classrooms. States like Florida are pushing bills to essentially outlaw teaching uncomfortable history in order to avoid, in Gov. Rick DeSantis’ words, making kids “hate our country and each other.” I teach history to students 12 […]