We don’t have to wonder why there is such a divide between the folks who identify as Democrats and as Republicans when you hear the statements that were uttered by our very own Sen. Susan Collins last week, regarding the seating of the next Supreme Court justice, specifically: “This time there is no need for […]

Is Maine seriously considering changing the labels we put on people who break the law? I refer to the recent story about what I consider the “not-a-problem” idea of stigmatizing lawbreakers. We should change “inmate” to “resident of a jail”? And that’s because we don’t want to stigmatize them? So we’re going to pay someone […]

There have been multiple news reports and alerts for medical professionals and parents published in the past few years about TikTok videos that challenge their viewers to take increasing doses of over-the-counter Benadryl to induce hallucinations. Benadryl is an antihistamine often used for allergy symptoms. As a pediatric ICU doctor in Maine, I have seen […]

Re: “Letter to the editor: Elected officials are the wrong people to run Maine’s utilities” (Jan. 27): Letter writer Donna Raymond’s description of the proposal for a consumer-owned utility to replace Central Maine Power and Versant Power is way off the mark. The proposed consumer-owned utility will be governed by an independent board, elected to […]

Right now, the state of Maine has an $800 million-plus budget surplus. Money is pouring into the state to fix roads and bridges. Yet Maine levies a 30 cent-per-gallon excise tax, which (supposedly) goes to road construction and repair. Can someone in Augusta tell Mainers why, with regular gas prices hovering near $4 per gallon, […]

In a 1967 NBC News interview, the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. shared what had become of his vision of equality for Black Americans: “That dream … has turned into a nightmare.” These words clash with our collective memory of the man, and it has a lot to do with normalizing revisionist voices. Dr. […]

I am writing in support of L.D. 1626 – an act that will restore sovereignty to the Wabanaki tribes. I have lived in Maine for 24 years. I was appalled when I learned the history of how the state of Maine has been treating the tribes. I was shocked to learn that the four Maine […]

Nuclear weapons are the only devices created that could end civilization in minutes. The treaty of the prohibition of nuclear weapons keeps the world safe from the possibility of a nuclear war. The U.S. has currently not signed this treaty, and is the second leading country in nuclear weapons. The United States should sign the […]