Maine has a unique opportunity to lead the country in how we support and value older adults. Right now, we’re falling behind. As the oldest state, Maine should be strengthening — not shrinking — its aging support system. Instead, the current supplemental budget includes no additional funding for the essential services that help people age safely at […]

Republicans are touting a proposal to make it more difficult to vote, and Sen. Susan Collins has jumped on to the corresponding bandwagon. I find such efforts by Sen. Collins indicate that, at this point, she cannot accurately read the tea leaves any more.  Maine voters, last November, rejected a similar ballot question by an almost 2-to-1 […]

President Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran was the last straw for me. The attack was not vetted by Congress and was ill-planned. Trump reportedly ordered the attack in the middle of negotiations with Iran, during a plane ride to Texas. Shortly after giving the order, he made an appearance at a charity gala at Mar-a-Lago. […]

I believe President Trump must be removed from office and charged with crimes against humanity.  Trump could have continued to negotiate with Iran but decided, without provocation, to bomb it and, with Israel, to assassinate its leadership instead. This, along with the reported deaths of 165 people, most of them elementary school students, and no […]

The Environmental Protection Agency was started in 1970 by President Nixon, who recognized the negative effect human activities were having on the environment. In 2009, an “endangerment finding” was issued by the EPA in response to a Supreme Court decision determining that greenhouse gases were a form of pollution covered by the Clean Air Act. […]

Our freedom of speech and the freedom of the press are under pressure from multiple directions. Recent events make the danger impossible to ignore. When journalists like Don Lemon and comedians like Stephen Colbert are pressured simply for doing their jobs —documenting public events and asking challenging questions through satire — it sends a warning […]