Much of our life’s learning comes to us through our own failures. That is — if we are able to acknowledge that it was our failure, and not lay it at the feet of someone else. The acknowledging piece can be challenging. Our culture, and particularly our current president, does not acknowledge failure. It is […]

I want to thank Clare Dalton for authoring the June 19 op-ed on Maine’s Death with Dignity statute (“Amend Maine’s Death with Dignity statute, reduce suffering“). Fifteen years ago, the Portland Press Herald printed an article I wrote asking for the same type of relief for people living in pain with no hope of relief […]

Your readers were subject to an opinion piece in the June 22 newspaper that was presumably written by Sen. Trey Stewart and Sarah E. Hunt (“Biden’s signature act fails Maine, feeds China“). I say presumably because it could have easily been written by a few choice prompts in ChatGPT. For instance, if you wrote the […]

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about our “heroic ICE officers” being attacked for simply doing their job. Whether I agree or not that their jobs are worth doing, I strongly disagree that they are heroes. Wouldn’t a hero proudly display their identity? Why would they wear a mask if they are so heroic? Some […]

I’d like to follow up on Gov. Janet Mills’ public memo of June 6, kicking off June as “Dairy Month at University of Maine Witter Farm.” The governor emphasized that milk bottled in Maine can be identified by a code on the container beginning with the number 23. It is a little-known fact that while […]

The U.S. embassy in Dakar recently rejected visa applications for several members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team. The team had been scheduled to train in the U.S. Senegal is also among the 36 nations that the United States is considering adding to a travel ban. These visa rejections were wrong, just as those travel bans […]

Sen. Collins needs to hear from us. I think she believes that we all have rights, with no exceptions. But her political party has been taken over by people who want to suppress the rights of everyone but rich, white, cisgendered, male, American citizens. They want to cut services for the poor to give themselves […]