I’m writing to thank Sen. Susan Collins for her “No” vote on the recent reconciliation bill, which will cut SNAP benefits by nearly $300 billion and affect tens of thousands of working families and children in Maine. The bill also guts access to reproductive health care by excluding organizations like Planned Parenthood and Maine Family […]

This is in response to the July 15 op-ed headlined “Jannik Sinner also aced the compassion test.” It told of how the number one tennis player in the world, Sinner, ran to the other side of the net to kneel by his opponent, Gregor Dimitrov, who was down and clearly in pain while Sinner was […]

I have been watching this whole Trump era unfold and I finally have to speak up about one thing in particular that both sides are mistaken about. The media, both right- and left-leaning, and the voting citizens, on both sides, have made this era of politics about Trump and his “decisions.” This is giving way […]

Those who are more than 30 years old have had the good fortune to live during the greatest period in the greatest country of the modern era on our fragile planet. In short order, it has been carelessly dismantled and intentionally detached from our closest allies, who will no longer be able to trust the […]

As I sit down to write this piece, the death toll in Texas has reached 135, with many more than that missing and presumed dead. A national tragedy brought about by biblical-like flooding that took unprepared young and old alike. How could this happen? There is culpability here and it firmly lies with President Donald […]

Sen. Susan Collins wants us to think that she did everything she could to protect Mainers by voting against the “big, beautiful bill.” Hogwash. In a July 1 press release, Collins acknowledged that nearly a third of Mainers rely on Medicaid, and the bill cuts could threaten our rural hospitals. But she was not concerned […]