High school sports have never been about fairness. If they were, everybody would come across the finish line at the same time. Short, stout fellows like me would not be seen as having any kind of advantage over athletic girls. But I have never been any good at sports. I did participate. I ran in […]

When asked in an interview if he should “uphold the Constitution,” our president answered, “I don’t know.” Did he not realize he swore an oath to do that very thing when he took the oath of office? He swore to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Does he have memory problems, […]

The special municipal election and school budget referendum on June 10 will have the following question on the ballot: “Do you wish to continue the budget validation referendum process in Portland for an additional three years?” I will be voting “no.” We pay our school board and city council members to go through the school […]

On May 20, news sources declared that if Israel fails to allow food and other necessities to enter the ravaged communities of Gaza within “the next 48 hours,” 14,000 innocent children will die of starvation. Israel’s military (mostly supplied by weapons from the United States) has been blockading Gaza, thus causing thousands to die of […]

I was talking to a friend, a fellow student of history, and we came to the following conclusions. When the government starts deciding that the Bill of Rights only applies to certain people, it has just reduced those rights into privileges. This is the first and biggest step toward elimination. Either those rights protect everyone […]

When we hear emergency vehicles, sirens wailing and lights flashing, driving through our neighborhoods, we wonder about the crisis unfolding. We too often overlook the enduring commitment of those routinely responding to those calls for help — the paramedics, EMTs, dispatchers and support staff — who rush toward danger, not away from it. Emergency Medical […]

A Maine Monitor report carried in the May 17 Press Herald (“Racial, ethnic diversity increasing in Maine’s health care workforce“) shows exactly why subscribers continue to cancel their subscriptions. Once again you celebrate people of color vs. white people in the health care industry. You use percentages rather than hard numbers to show the difference […]

As we watch the Trump regime ransack the federal government and trash the Constitution, Rep. Jared Golden chooses to level his criticisms at the grassroots organization Indivisible, calling it divisive and questioning its financing. If pushing back on the fascist regime in Washington, D.C., is divisive, then I guess that moniker fits. It’s not even […]