The state must find ways to boost recycling. Our leaders can start by assigning the producers of plastic, glass, and other packaging responsibility for funding and maintaining a new recycling infrastructure that would enable Maine to process its waste independently.

If you don’t want anguish translating into violence, translate it into change.

I hope I am wrong about this, but if I am right the possibility of more attacks and more bloodshed will be on the hands of the current administration, no matter how long it takes before the Taliban regroup and Afghanistan again becomes a center for exporting terrorism to our shores and to other countries.

The problems associated with drug abuse continue and were made worse due to the pandemic. The solution remains to be access to treatment and support services in rural communities and increasing the number of resources for prevention, treatment, and recovery.

Over the past few years, Maine sexual assault prevention and response centers have been learning a great deal about the relationship between oppression and sexual violence, and have been working to ground ourselves and our services in an anti-oppression framework. After all, oppression like sexual violence is a significant trauma in an individual’s life that not only impacts them but those who care about them, their family systems and the community at large.