I will not be receiving an income tax refund this year. I am certain that I’m not alone. I’ll be writing a check payable to the U.S. Treasury and it angers me to think that possibly some small portion of my payment will be used to fund another stupid, foolish (and possibly forever) war in […]

Why is our country denying or ignoring the warming weather? More people, animals and plants are dying from heat every year. This past March, there were hotter temperatures in our West than ever before, while Hawaii was hit by huge rain storms for two weeks, causing devastating floods. I was in Hawaii recently and the […]

Every major gain for the working class in America has come from the people. We didn’t get the eight-hour workday or the 40-hour workweek because CEOs handed them over. We fought for them. Just as Americans fought in the 1910s for women’s rights, in the 1950s and ’60s for civil rights and in the 1970s […]

After more than 40 years in Brunswick, I never imagined that our hometown would become an unaffordable place to retire. My husband is a veteran who served this country for 21 years. I’ve spent more than 33 years as a radiation therapist. Our pensions and Social Security put us in a category where we have […]

As a longtime Maine voter, I believe we should replace Sen. Susan Collins. Collins represents big government that ignores the needs of many Maine voters who buy groceries, pay ever-expanding costs for housing and medical care and pay the bills that flood our homes and mailboxes. Two alternate senate candidates that I find interesting are […]

I applaud the message of James McGuire’s Feb. 27 op-ed (“American politics is suffering from Rip Van Winkle syndrome”). However, the MAGA leadership has not been sleeping. For well over a decade it has been plotting, strategizing for this Trumpian moment. Its aim all along was to defeat the goals of the past generation toward a more […]

As a first-generation logger in central Maine, it has become more and more difficult to operate due to shrinking markets, inflation, high interest rates, fuel and other expenses that continue to skyrocket. Similar to farmers, loggers like myself have no control over markets or how much money we receive for a load of wood. We […]