During my teaching years at Hebron Academy, a student, whose family declined vaccinations, came to class not knowing he was coming down with mumps. When a full-blown case developed, the school shut down for about a week (I can’t recall exactly how long). Why? Because enough faculty members could not prove they had had mumps […]

There is no doubt about it: a “no” vote on Question 1 will protect our children’s health. I support the right to decide, for “philosophical reasons,” that some people don’t want their children to have a vaccination, even one that has been proven to have a good risk-to-benefit profile. But if people choose to not […]

Rep. Kristen Cloutier deserves thanks for sponsoring the Tax Credit for Family Caregivers bill (LD 1919). Other elected officials should support it as well. A year ago my family made the difficult decision to place my grandmother in a nursing home. She had repeatedly told us that she wanted to spend the rest of her […]

The Senate is tasked with deciding the guilt or innocence of President Donald Trump in an impeachment trial. All senators took an oath to be impartial in their deliberations. There is no question the majority cannot say with a straight face that they will be. I find it disturbing that so many, on both sides, […]

Bad enough, New England Clean Energy Connect is bombarding TV screens and printed media with vast scenes of western Maine’s forests, depicting barely discernible treeless transmission line swaths cut through them, which also clearly show abundance of ground vegetation. Is it not possible, in this age of electronic digitalization, that these might well be computer-generated […]

Androscoggin County Commissioners should be thanked for voting to rescind their support of the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC) transmission line project. The commission’s voice is especially important in view of the recent revelation that CMP has spent over $2 million to combat the growing number of Mainers against the project. Thirty-five years ago, […]

People need to stop listening to their ideological talking heads on television and seriously look at the facts regarding what is happening with President Trump’s impeachment. The Republican talking points — calling the process unconstitutional and a brazen attempt to overturn the results of the 2016 election — are already factually weak, but they are […]

My applause goes out to residents of the town of Sabattus, who had the intestinal fortitude to let Michelle Malkin speak at their town hall. So many people wanted to hear what she had to say that the town hall had to turn away some of the crowd. The Franco Heritage Center and Martindale Country […]

I recently read that conservative talk show host Michelle Malkin came to Maine to speak and three venues canceled on her, due to protestors, before she finally found a welcoming crowd in Sabattus. I am appalled that Maine citizens are acting like that. That is what communist countries do — they refuse to listen to […]