I could have sworn that our representatives took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. In these times – when so much political commentary appears to be focused on the Right vs. the Left, Republicans vs. Democrats, rather than to that Constitution – we are missing something very important: so many people are unshakably […]

I am sick of picking the lesser of two evils. I want to be able to vote for someone I am passionate about, not the person who has the most money and therefore the best chance of winning. Our current Senate race has someone I can vote for without feeling I am compromising my morals: […]

It is clear that many police incidents such as Daniel Prude in Rochester, New York; Nicolas Chavez in Houston, and the 13-year-old boy with Asperger’s syndrome, in Salt Lake City, are the result of police reactions to mental health situations they can’t handle without escalating an encounter to the point of lethal force. We are […]

I am supporting my neighbor in Scarborough, Sophie Warren, for the Maine House of Representatives on Nov. 3. She is running as an independent for Scarborough’s District 29. I have known Sophie since she was a small child. She went to Sunday School at the church that her family and mine attended in Scarborough. Sophie […]

I write children’s books. President Trump didn’t receive my vote in 2016 because I felt he would not be a good role model for my grandchildren – for any children. That fear has proven right, I feel, with its evidence tweeted and exhibited almost daily these past three years. But what really saddens me is […]

As a retired hospital pharmacist, after a long career spanning three hospitals and two states, I have some understanding of infectious disease and its transmission. So, as the events rising from the wedding celebration in Millinocket unfolded, I got it. COVID-19 is acting just the way that the science told us it would. The completely […]

COVID-19 has been a disaster for our country, made worse by our president’s refusal to tell us the truth and to acknowledge the virus as a real threat. Causing illness or death for someone we love, or someone we don’t even know, is excruciatingly painful. We want to believe that our president ran for office […]