“We can get eight to 10 calls a day asking if we have a bed.” Cecelia Hitte, housing navigator for Tedford Housing, paints me a picture of the often-underestimated needs of the region. While Tedford currently houses 12 individual adults (reduced from the original 16 to comply with COVID guidelines) and six families, it must […]

Every day, it seems, we hear about another mass shooting. Usually, the killer is a lone young white male who’s been damaged by a bad home life or been bullied. Did you know that 90 percent of the acts of violence in America are committed by boys and men? Did you know that one in […]

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Here’s a trend that may not bode well for the future of our country: According to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics, only 40 percent of 16- to 19-year-olds have summer jobs — down from 75 percent of teens a generation ago. As it goes, according to the NerdWallet website, teen summer employment has […]

Since Paul LePage is running another anti-income tax campaign for Maine governor, it’s time to dust off the history books and delve into “The Great New Hampshire Tax Myth,” for it’s at the root of most of our national tax dilemmas, as well of those of New England states and, well, Maine. The theory, like […]

Recently, I attended a White House signing ceremony for three bills I championed to help ensure that America’s veterans receive the benefits, resources, and recognition they earned through their service to our country. It was a pleasure to witness the President sign into law two important bills that will strengthen breast cancer detection and prevention […]

Oleg Morozov, a member of the Russian parliament and an ally of President Vladimir Putin’s, made what sounded much like a threat in May 2022. Poland should be “in first place in the queue for denazification after Ukraine,” he said. Just days earlier, pro-Putin Moscow city assembly member, Sergey Savostyanov, asserted that after Ukraine, Russia […]

It’s been a long, hot summer for Democrats. A new New York Times/Siena College poll points the way to the party’s current malaise: Nearly two-thirds of Democratic voters – 64 percent – say they want someone other than President Joe Biden to be the party’s nominee in two years’ time, and barely a third say […]