An old song got it right when it penned, “I believe the children are our future.” Rep. Laurel Libby knows that children are our future, and that education can never be “one size fits all.” One size fits all doesn’t work well in a t-shirt, and it certainly doesn’t work in education. Public schools work […]

In her May 5 reply to my letter of April 28 criticizing a column by Shannon Jones on homelessness (Sun Journal, April 25), Maureen Andrew accused me of coldness. With the intention of consoling her, Andrew sent a copy of the column to a friend whose son died homeless, just as Jones’ son had.  But […]

I  was and am disappointed at Bates College’s opposition and expenditure of money to fight its employees’ legal right to organize and unionize. Recent union successes at several Starbucks locations, amid reports of unprecedented amounts of corporate profits in these pandemic years, have motivated workers all over the country to ask for their fair share. […]