This month, my colleagues in the Legislature and I passed a Continuing Services Budget to ensure funding for existing state operations over the next two years. The first part of the biennial budget addressed our most pressing issues and allows us to move forward on crafting a fiscally responsible two-year budget that meets our district’s needs. […]
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Citizen concern over Brunswick Landing PFAS spill
I am a longtime Brunswick resident. Our home is to the southwest of Brunswick Landing, the former Brunswick Naval Air Station (BNAS). My parents lived in Topsham, just across the river from BNAS and directly under the flight path of the P3 Orions. The low hum of the engines was background noise. It was less […]
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Kudos to Bowdoin College’s women’s basketball squad
In March 2004, we were on vacation at Maho Bay in St. John’s in the Virgin Islands. During that time, Bowdoin College played Wilmington College (Ohio) in the finals of the Division III Women’s Basketball Championship. Games weren’t live-streamed back then, but Clark Truesdell, my former college roommate, was listening to it on the radio. […]
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Health equity shouldn’t require pulling up bootstraps
Boy, there is a lot going on right now. Both close to home and further afield, it is a constant swirl. Colds, flu and norovirus have plagued our small team as have a disproportionate number of broken bones. People are worried about inflation, how avian flu is affecting the price and availability of eggs, the […]
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A hopeful outlook eases the journey
“Life is difficult.” The first sentence in “The Road Less Traveled,” the best seller by Scott Peck, published in 1978. “Old age ain’t for sissies.” The wry comment often made by my mother (Moo), always with a twinkle in her eye. As a resident of Thornton Oaks, a retirement community where the median age is […]
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Learning key lessons while watching Brunswick-Topsham bridge build
As a regular observer of the Brunswick-Topsham bridge project, I have watched with awe from the early excavations through the precision placement of massive steel beams. Progress has been impressive, and we eagerly await the final product. Amid the political division and rancor in our country, it is a pleasant diversion to observe impressive technical […]
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Tariffs bring a major new tax
In his avalanche of actions, President Trump has adopted an across-the-board tax increase. Like many of his other moves, he should have sought Congressional approval, but he chose to act on his own. He is using powers meant for a true national emergency to radically increase tariffs as he launches his personal view of trade […]
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Letters to the editor: Trump crosses the line; cancer care legislation; obesity in Maine
Trump keeps crossing line after line Is there a red line that Trump is not allowed to cross? It doesn’t appear so. Congressional Republicans have ceded to him most of their power in less than 100 days. They are allowing his puppet master, Musk, to destroy federally mandated and/or approved agencies such as USAID, CDC, […]
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Are you a fanatic or what?
I recently attended a memorial service for a longtime acquaintance who was renowned as one of those “if you cut him, he’d bleed University of Tennessee orange” enthusiasts. I came away self-conscious, because — while I like countless things in this big, beautiful world — I was “curbing my enthusiasm” even before Larry David launched […]
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Restoring our Irish sense of humor
St. Patrick’s Day couldn’t come soon enough this year. Half the country is giddy as the Trump administration undoes our reckless spending and $2 trillion annual deficits, which have resulted in a frightening $37 trillion national debt. But the other half of the country is mortified by Trump’s bull-in-a-China-shop approach to government and foreign policy. […]
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