It is with alarm and dismay that I have noted that the White House has ordered all hospitals to send information on COVID-19 cases to the national Department of Health and Human Services rather than to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. This action is a grave travesty of science. I am concerned that […]

Sen. Susan Collins recently tweeted a photo of herself with the late Rep. John Lewis, lauding his legacy in the passage of the Voting Rights Act, the watershed 1965 law prohibiting discriminatory voting policies. In 2013 the Supreme Court gutted the powers of the act, opening the door for states to enact policies that make […]

On the anniversary of D-Day I talked to my 95-year-old mom. A widow of a WWII veteran (OSS), a Rosie the Riveter herself, she regretted the lack of celebration. We discussed that there is so much news, sometimes really important things are squeezed out. The news story about the Russians paying bounties to Afghan militants […]

Imagine my surprise. On the very day it was announced that Sara Gideon would compete against Susan Collins in the November election, I received a recorded message from Sen. Collins. She invited me to participate in a live, constituent conference call. Now I have tried for a long time to talk with Sen. Collins to […]

With the myriad and very significant challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, the plight of Capt. Brett Crozier appears to have been quietly swept under the rug. Readers may recall that Capt. Crozier was publicly censured, relieved of command of CVN Theodore Roosevelt, briefly reinstated, then summarily fired, ostensibly for inappropriately voicing his concern for crew […]

In a recent op-ed published in your paper, CMP’s (seemingly) only two allies, Tom Rumpf and Lloyd Irland, make the case that CMP’s unpopular corridor project is necessary to reduce the effects of climate change, and they argue that “we must move quickly” (“Maine Woods would benefit from power line project” June 29). They left […]

In response to Bill Nemitz’s July 1 column, “Collins stumbles over another promise made – and broken”: As a lifelong Mainer, I’m no stranger to Susan Collins proving time and time again that she’s not on our side. She’s taken massive donations from pharmaceutical companies, the insurance industry and from Bath Iron Works’ competitors. And […]

Two years ago there was talk of Susan Collins running for governor of Maine. Perhaps she would have made a pretty good one. She would have been free from bondage to Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump. Remember, she used to be an effective senator for Maine, in touch with her state and proficient at bringing […]