As a resident of Maine I am writing concerning a proposed bill to expand abortion to full-term in the state. The overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court shifted the protection of Maine’s most vulnerable residents, the unborn, to state lawmakers across the nation. The current Maine law is quite broad already and […]

I am writing as a concerned citizen to urge legislators to vote “ought to pass” on LD 928, the Pine Tree Amendment.I am a hunter, fisherman, gardener and forager. The majority of my diet comes from food that I have either hunted, fished, foraged or grown myself. Constitutionally enshrining my and all Mainers’ rights to […]

In the Sun Journal’s coverage of the long-awaited counting of ballots in the Bates Employees & Staff Organization’s (BESO) vote to form a union, reporter Steve Collins’ conclusion and reporting demonstrate a lack of understanding of what workers faced at Bates in this campaign, or what workers in general face in most efforts to form […]

U.S. Rep. Jared Golden has championed our lobster industry in its pleas to keep using traditional lobstering gear. Of course our congressman understands that his advocacy is useless if there are no lobster to catch. He also knows that, due to climate change, the Gulf of Maine is warming three times faster than the oceans […]

Our Legislature is currently moving a bill toward the hearing stage that would make abortion legal through full term, with the approval of a qualified medical professional. It does not have an LD number yet and is still in the revisor’s office. If people are reading this, they were not aborted and got their shot […]

CMP’s New England Clean Energy Connect claims it would bring “clean energy” to Massachusetts from Canada (by tearing through the western Maine forest). It claims it “would allow Massachusetts to meet its future carbon reduction goals.” There is a problem with that claim. A big problem. That energy is not clean. In testimony at an Army […]