As severe storms race through America, spawning tornadoes, hail and floods, I wonder what must occur to move people to take action on mitigating climate change? Some already have loved ones affected by wildfires, intensified by high temperatures and drought. My household needed to dig a new well in 2016 due to prolonged drought conditions. […]

In the United States, no one is above the law but, day after day, I watch what appear to be violations of the Constitution by President Donald Trump as he ignores the rule of law and slow-walks the country toward autocracy. (Autocracy is when one person possesses unlimited power in a government.) People have a […]

Donna Dodge, in her letter (May 2) opposing mandatory vaccination, was inaccurate when she said that the Supreme Court ruled that vaccines are “unavoidably unsafe.” The case in question was Bruesewitz v Wyeth in 2010, and the issue in question was a complex one regarding consumers’ ability to sue the manufacturer of a vaccine for […]

Everyone knows why people are required to wear seat belts. It is really because when someone gets hurt without wearing a seat belt, the auto insurance companies don’t like that. I came to realize that you can fight city hall but you cannot fight the insurance companies. So, getting pulled over for not wearing a […]

Three members of my household voted for Janet Mills in anticipation that she would protect the dwindling semi-wilderness of Maine. Her support of a hydro-electric transmission line, consisting of cutting a swath through precious, irreplaceable, semi-wilderness — like a dagger through the heart of Maine — is disappointing. Unfortunately, using Maine as a doormat will […]

John Adams was the principal author of the Massachusetts Constitution of 1780. That document became the principal model for the U.S Constitution of 1787. Adams wrote: “In the government of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the legislative, executive and judicial power shall be placed in separate departments, to the end that it might be a government […]

According to the office of Maine’s attorney general, 376 people died of drug overdoses in this state in 2018 alone. Those are 376 people Maine failed because this state has no effective drug policies. That number is just the tip of the iceberg, as over 25,000 people living in Maine are estimated to have needed, […]

The Lewiston school budget, if approved, would increase costs and may still result in unsatisfactory student outcome. It may only ensure that district schools and students continue to fail. That possible failure is familiar and also reliably predicted by the district’s past performance. Public education in Lewiston has consistently failed for more than a decade. […]

This is a response to Norman Smith’s letter of April 23, which commented on my letter of April 16. Smith wrote that I “… blame all of the ills of this country on the Democrats and fraudulent independents.” That is an erroneous interpretation of my remarks. However, President Trump did inherit a number of serious […]

In a purely partisan vote, Democrats on the Educational and Cultural Affairs Committee all voted in favor of LD 798, a bill to remove philosophical and religious exemptions to vaccinations. I applaud the efforts of the Republican committee members; however, although they gave it their best, the democrats outnumbered them 8-5. Testimonies lasted all afternoon […]