Our thanks to Sen. Susan Collins, along with a bipartisan group of 19 Senate colleagues, for securing a one-year delay in changes to a federal  education program that serves the most rural, needy students in our country. A U.S. Education Department decision meant over 800 rural schools were set to lose funding next year, including […]

Imagine if Tom Steyer had spent his $200 million and Michael Bloomberg had spent his $450 million (and counting) on solving climate change or turning the Senate blue or rebuilding the New York City subway or a dozen other important problems that money could solve rather than trying to sell Americans on anointing themselves savior. […]

As we turn toward spring, I invite you to consider “natural is the new perfect” for your landscape. By natural I mean no ‘cides – pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides. A flawless lawn is precisely un-natural, and our race to keep up with the Joneses is killing us and poisoning birds, bees, fish and aquatic life. […]

I believe in life from conception to natural death. L.D. 1613, a bill that would pay for family planning services at clinics that also provide abortion,  sounds good on the surface because we want the best health care as women. But that is already provided all over Maine. We don’t need Planned Parenthood and Family […]

They say we can’t have: A sustainable world: We can see climate change with our own eyes now, and our scientists warn that if we do not make fundamental changes quickly, we can make our world unlivable in our grandchildren’s time. And yet, moderate and conservative politicians believe that we can only afford to take […]

Helaine Olen, a Washington Post columnist and a member of the “no crisis should go to waste” crowd, argues that the cost of confronting the coronavirus epidemic will make a good case for “Medicare for All.” As an example, she reports on an individual who went to the hospital for a coronavirus test, got an […]

First quarter is the busiest time of year for accountants – our entire annual timeline builds up to tax season, but somehow the tax deadlines creep up on millions of filers every year. The Internal Revenue Service reports that roughly 10 percent of Americans file an extension each year, which provides six extra months to […]

Coronavirus is the current headline and scare. Yet fewer than 4,000 have died worldwide. Heat waves also cause death. For instance, 52,000 Europeans died by heatstroke during the European heat wave of 2003, at a rate of 2,000 people a day during the peak of the heat. Climate change is causing an increased frequency of […]