Vaccines have a proven record of successfully keeping Mainers safe from diseases that kill, maim and disable children, as well as adults, who may be going through chemotherapy or have autoimmune conditions that render them unable to be vaccinated. Babies too young to be vaccinated are at much greater risk of severe illness or death […]

This hungry search for names in the Epstein files is beginning to have a definite McCarthy stink to it. Perhaps no names should be made public until the Justice Department — or whoever — actually prosecutes people. Then folks can unleash their righteous indignation. Right now we’re damaging people regardless of how tenuous their connection to […]

Have you ever made a phone call to hear, “This call is being recorded for …,” then you proceed to talk to someone, ask questions, answer questions? Did you do a computer review of the person you will speak to, to make sure they meet your expectations for moral values before exposing yourself to being […]

Just one year ago, I didn’t know anything about the fraught issue of tribal sovereignty, and if I had, I wouldn’t have felt a personal stake in the matter. But that all changed last summer, after I spent several days on Indian Island with other educators learning about Wabanaki culture, history and native survivance. Nothing in […]

I appreciated Charles Todorich’s word salad lecturing us all (“‘White Guilt’ explains everything about race in America,” Feb. 8) that racism directed against people of color died a long time ago because of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. … or something?  Mr. Todorich’s sources on the subject of modern American race relations seem to be […]

On Jan. 28, I was scheduled for a 7 a.m. procedure at Maine Medical Center. On the way there, I saw a social media post featuring nurses discussing staffing shortages related to ICE activity and the fear some Black and brown colleagues felt about coming to work. While being prepped, a nurse handed me a […]

A Feb. 2 op-ed, arguing that crypto mining could support Maine’s aging energy grid, overlooks realities. While Bitcoin mines are framed as flexible grid assets, they operate like energy-intensive data centers, with continuous demand and lasting community impacts. Claims that operations can shut down “at the flick of a switch” ignore that profitability depends on […]