Every few years, Maine tackles “illicit grows,” usually by applying more restrictions on the legal cannabis market. Are we fighting illegal activity or simply layering Prohibition-era suspicion onto a legal industry? While compliant caregivers and small businesses follow strict regulations, pay taxes and support communities, the impulse to overregulate them when illicit actors appear is […]

A fan of Sports Team X is witness to his/her team being sold and rebranded, becoming Sports Team Y. The fan may still support X, but X as they knew it is now gone. I had this thought while reading Sarah English and Jack Schrader’s recent op-ed on how Republican Maine State Sen. David Haggan […]

I’m writing because I was pleasantly surprised to see news that Virginia’s legislators had voted in favor of joining Maine and other states in the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact. This was my first time learning of the compact, so I did some looking into how it would work. The goal, through individual state law, […]

The dearth of press coverage of the 2025-26 Maine high school swimming season does not reflect the copious talent that spans our state. Conference championships were recently held for Southwestern South/North in Cape Elizabeth and KVACs were in Bath. More than 800 athletes have competed this season. Conference, state and pool records have been broken. […]

Sen. Susan Collins is backing a bill in the Senate that would require proof of citizenship to vote. Presumably people would need a U.S. passport or a REAL ID when they come to the polls to vote. I guess people could use a birth certificate but how many voters can easily put their hands on […]

We are bombarded with mind-numbing, incessant political commercials if we watch television.  This is not only cruel and unusual punishment but counterproductive. I have a suggestion: Maine candidates cut their massive budgets for TV ads by half and send the money to Maine residents harmed by ICE, in some cases terribly harmed. Peg CruikshankScarborough

It is time for us to rise to the challenge and answer the many questions we face as a people; this time, it is crucial we do not come up with the same answers, repeating our mistakes. The people of Maine are resilient, intelligent and capable — capable of asking the hard questions, capable of […]

I was disappointed to read, in Rachel Ohm’s Feb. 17 article, that Sen. Collins announced her support for the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. Numerous studies and reports have made clear that voter fraud in Maine, and throughout the country, is negligible. Yet, Republicans continue to push the narrative that our voting system is […]

Once again, Sen. Collins is siding with her party rather than taking a courageous stance on behalf of her constituents.   Collins has expressed her support for the SAVE Act, which would make voting much more difficult for thousands of Mainers, but stated she’s not in favor of eliminating the Senate filibuster, a prerequisite for […]