“No person in the United States shall, on bias of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal assistance …” Those words, written and passed into law by the United States Congress in June 1972, are the foundations of […]

Good for Graham Platner for saying “I’m sorry.” We need people in Washington, D.C., who can say “I’m sorry.” Every week, Platner is on the front page saying “I’m sorry” for something he said yesterday or eight years ago: about the glories of combat, the weakness of women, the sad state of disabled people; we […]

On reading Randy Billings’ April 3 article (“Platner re-ups criticism of Collins for Iraq vote,”) an illustrated poem from childhood — “The Land of Counterplane” by Robert Louis Stevenson — came to mind; it spoke of a sick boy, in bed, marching little toy soldiers across his bed sheets to amuse himself. Youngsters of many […]

This is just another way to colonize Maine.

According to the Congressional Budget Office, this war Trump started is costing us $1 billion a day. Where is all of this money coming from? We are told that Social Security will run out of funds in 2032. Every day, Americans die because they can’t afford insurance, 48 million American families live in poverty, 1 […]

 I was pleased to see that the Maine Legislature passed a bill to study how much the damage from greenhouse gas emissions has cost the state. We can’t stop there, though. We need to make sure big polluters don’t get a pass for the damage they’ve done to our climate. Despite what fossil fuel executives […]

What would be an efficient way for a U.S. senator to gradually ruin their reputation, to destroy political capital that they’d carefully built up over years of being indecisive but acting thoughtful? I guess three things come to mind fairly quickly. David CritchfieldSouth Portland