“Washington passes tax breaks for corporations, but there is no special interest looking out for us.” These are not my words. These are the words of a local Brunswick business owner who recently appeared in a political commercial to speak out against companies getting free handouts from those in positions of power in government. The […]

Vote Arford To all my District 49 citizens in Brunswick, I would like to ask you to cast a vote for Poppy Arford on Nov. 3 as our legislative House representative, or even better, cast an absentee ballot. Many of you know I ran for this seat, and Poppy won. It was during the campaign, […]

I hope we get it right. Data collection for the 2020 U.S. Census ends soon. This census, the 22nd in U.S. history, has faced its share of challenges and controversies. The goal of the census has remained the same throughout its 230-year history: to count every person living in the United States. The Constitution requires […]

The U.S. Justice Department has dispatched federal agents and U.S. marshals to Kenosha, Wisconsin, where a police shooting left an unarmed Black man, Jacob Blake, paralyzed. The Aug. 23 shooting triggered fury, protest and nights of deadly conflict. Kenosha is the latest city to see federal intervention in demonstrations against police violence. Citing its responsibility […]

This summer, ocean temperatures have been extraordinarily warm and that has led to a lot of discussion about climate change and its impacts on marine life. One of those impacts that isn’t exactly related to temperature, but is related in another somewhat tricky way is acidification. Acidification is the increasing acidity or pH of the […]

During the 2016 presidential campaign, then-candidate Donald Trump refused to promise to accept the results of the election. Likewise, in 2020, his continued assault on the reliability and legitimacy of mail-in voting has laid the groundwork for challenging a loss on the basis of voter fraud. He has also refused to promise to observe the […]

Vote Biden The upcoming presidential election is vital. We are in the worst epidemic in 100 years. We are in the worst economy since the Great Depression. We are seeing civil rights clashes like we have not seen since the 1960s. And we are witnessing climate change on a scale not seen in recorded history. It’s […]

More than 16 hours of political conventions over two weeks boiled down to a single word: fear. Democrats spent most of their time stoking their brand of fear – appropriately, in my view – about the damage a second Trump term would cause. Republicans in turn focused almost entirely on the threat posed by Joe […]