The weak agreement at last week’s Glasgow climate change summit and double-digit rate increases for power and its delivery in the bills of Maine’s largest electric utilities have a lot in common. They both showed that fighting climate change faces daunting obstacles, and it comes at great cost. Facing entrenched economic interests, the U.N. summit […]

These days, we’re all used to walking through retail stores in October and dodging Christmas displays of inflatable Baby Yoda yard art while we’re still trying to find the perfect Halloween pumpkins to decompose on our front porches. The real holiday season mashup controversy, though, emerges in November, when we try to determine when it’s […]

We need to all be vaccinated I’m grateful that the Maine CDC and the Press Herald diligently report COVID case rates and hospitalizations. But I think we are all woefully uninformed about the effect of high COVID case rates on our access to medical care. For example, how overwhelmed are the Emergency Departments of our […]

“I grew up near Newark, New Jersey, and I never knew how racist my parents were until the race riots occurred,” says Carol Martin. “My mother was terrified.” That experience combined with her friendship with a young African-American colleague at North Park University in Chicago led Carol to take the Sacred Ground program offered by […]