I would like to take this opportunity to write about Jenna Mehnert, CEO of NAMI Maine (the Maine chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness), and her tireless efforts to transform an organization fraught with financial and legal challenges into a successful and well respected mental health advocacy agency. I joined the NAMI Maine […]

Central Maine Power must honor all signed solar interconnection agreements, without delay or attempted excuse. The cost of any system upgrades beyond what the solar developers had agreed to fund results from CMP’s incompetence and should not be borne by CMP’s ratepayers or by the developers. Instead, it should be funded by CMP’s shareholder, Avangrid, […]

Modern labor struggles frequently witness use of legal consultants hired to ensure a “union-free environment.” By 1979 such legal consultants had become a major industry in the nation, with annual sales of well over a half-billion dollars. Labor union records of the period indicated that out of 6,000 organizing campaigns, two-thirds of them witnessed some […]

I am mad as heck at Central Maine Power’s decades of willful negligence and obstruction of clean, renewable energy in Maine and you should be, too, especially if you think we should do our part to address climate change. Now Maine’s largest utility wants to break its contracts, admitting it neglected to provide for the […]

As a USM graduate school alumna, school superintendent in Maine and volunteer member of the USM Promise Scholarship Program Advisory Board, I was grateful for the Feb. 7 story “USM grows scholarship program for disadvantaged and first-generation students,” and wanted to add my perspective about this scholarship’s unique model for success. Because of the generosity […]

Thank you to House Assistant Majority Leader Rachel Talbot Ross, D-Portland, for introducing L.D. 2, An Act to Require the Inclusion of Racial Impact Statements in the Legislative Process, and kudos to the Editorial Board for endorsing the proposal. These racial impact statements could be particularly instructive for Sen. Susan Collins. When asked about systemic […]

In 1966, Sen. J. William Fulbright wrote a book titled “The Arrogance of Power.” He could have been talking about MaineHealth. As Maine’s largest health care provider they appear to think they are free to do whatever they want. Apparently when they started administering COVID vaccines to employees who had no patient contact, they were […]

A few years ago, those members of my extended family who live in Canada were afforded the opportunity to register as Indigenous peoples. This was the product of a ruling that determined Canada could not deny such claims based on blood quotient because actions taken by the government to “reform” Indigenous peoples led many to […]