The mass shootings at a Buffalo, New York, supermarket and an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas, just 10 days apart, are stirring the now-familiar national debate over guns seen after the tragic 2012 and 2018 school shootings in Newtown, Connecticut, and Parkland, Florida. Inevitably, if also understandably, many Americans are blaming the National Rifle Association […]

It’s “a quarrel in a far-away country between people of whom we know nothing.” That was one man’s opinion years ago of a spark setting off the world’s greatest conflict. Just before the Russian attack on Ukraine, a U.S. Senate candidate taunted worriers, saying, “I got to be honest with you, I don’t really care […]

Should you invest in the stock market now or wait? That is the tough question the money experts are discussing. Stock prices continue to fall and NASDAQ.com says what’s “Even more unnerving is that nobody knows how long this downturn will last or how far prices will fall before the market bottoms out and starts […]

Want to know what rage feels like? It’s waking on a Wednesday morning on a school day as the cable news talking heads sift through the latest on the shooting at a Texas elementary school that left 21 people dead, most of them children, and looking at your daughter as she gets ready for her […]

Too easy to get an AR-15 I was curious to see whether I could buy an assault weapon online. I typed in “AR 15 for sale.” I got Grabagun.com and many others. Grabagun is based in Texas. They have over 2500 different assault weapons that come up under the search for AR-15. The procedure to […]

I have been thinking a lot lately about what it means to be a good neighbor. I moved to Brunswick from Bath almost two years ago and found a home in a lovely neighborhood. It is close to my job at the Oasis Free Clinics, walkable to downtown, and has a nice yard. What I […]