A good friend steadfastly disagreed with me when I applauded President Biden’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan a while back. It wasn’t pretty – but there was no pretty way to leave. The point was/is: We’re out. Once again I’m applauding President Biden for remaining cool, calm and collected as the first phase of […]

Sixty-thousand Maine voters publicly put their names and addresses on a public paper, in a public place, putting Question 1 on the ballot. Sixty percent of the people who cast a ballot supported the passage of that question. Over $48 million was spent for advertising opposing the question, all dark money supplied by people who […]

As a nation and a state, we Americans need to put aside petty political differences and distractions and remain focused on solutions to our real “Big Lie” – reliance on fossil fuels, even if its use is tempered with cleaner alternatives, natural gas, diesel and biofuels. These still require combustion and produce C02 and greenhouse […]

Although seldom, if ever, mentioned during all the heated discussion these past months, the 2018 New Hampshire rejection of the proposed Northern Pass transmission line relates to Maine. The New Hampshire route proposed by developers Eversource and Hydro-Quebec was Massachusetts’ first choice. It was not Maine. And the New Hampshire landscape surgery was to be […]

The pandemic has placed a huge strain on all of us. Clearly there is a lot of disagreement over how our Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel (RSU 21) school board has navigated the challenges presented by COVID-19. The fact is that no matter what our school board has decided or will decide in the future, when […]

Let’s take the mystery out of voting. During our last election, I was a greeter for my candidate for two hours. “Good morning, I’m a friend of …, thank you for voting.” Three people came out and told me they voted for my candidate. That made me happy. What scared me was that they knew […]

The Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention’s reporting of COVID-19 cases consistently lacks the emphasis on some key information. The numbers tell us how many new cases, how many hospitalizations and how many deaths but only anecdotally suggest “most” were not vaccinated. If they know what those “most” numbers are, it would be more […]

There are two nurses in my life who wish not to get vaccinated. One has been a nurse for my entire life – 32 years – and one has been a nurse for more than five. Both have worked throughout the entire COVID-19 pandemic, and both actively treat COVID patients (many of whom, they report, […]