In conversation this week with the White House press corps, on the eve of his one-year presidential anniversary, Joe Biden said: “One thing I haven’t been able to do so far is get my Republican friends to get in the game of making things better in this country… I did not anticipate that there’d be […]

For more than 60 years I have worked with the Wabanaki tribes in Maine as an ethnographer and historian. This gives me a perspective I hope you will find helpful on an extremely important issue that will be considered by the Legislature when it reconvenes in January — namely LD 1626, the tribal sovereignty bill. […]

While President Biden’s downward spiral in public approval continues, nervous Democrats have sought to reassure one another to remain calm, insisting there remains ample time for the administration to right the ship and bring the American people on board. Signs of desperation have crept onto the horizon, and none more politically fraught than rumors that […]

While browsing “1,000 Books to Read: A Life-Changing List,” by James Mustich, I came upon “Gone With the Wind,” by Margaret Mitchell. I’d seen the movie, which won several Academy Awards. The book had earned a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and sold over 30 million copies so I thought, “Why not?” I […]

Four years ago, Caroline Russell, a Gathering Place Board member, came to me with a big idea. How can we better educate the community about the people we serve? How can we shatter the stigma and stereotypes that exist when it comes to the people who access Housing Resources for Youth, Midcoast Hunger Prevention Program, […]

Last week, Arizona Sen. Kyrsten Sinema threw a wrench into Democrats’ plan on voting rights by continuing to oppose her own party’s efforts to reform the Senate filibuster. She’s also undermining her party’s leader, President Joe Biden, who delivered a speech last week in Atlanta viewed by many as a turning point for his presidency. […]

The U.S. Supreme Court looks like a divided legislature. Seven of the nine justices expressed their sharply differing opinions in two recent COVID vaccination decisions. Only Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Brett Kavanaugh, both conservatives, joined in the majority in both cases, and they alone refrained from making a comment. Despite appearances, the central […]

“Snow day.” Those were once the two most glorious words ever uttered on an early morning radio broadcast. When I was a kid in the ‘70s, it was pure heaven to wake to snow-blanketed hills, then tune into Jack Bogut’s KDKA morning show, praying he’d say our suburban school district was closed for the day. […]