On May 8, a dozen members of Divest Maine protested outside the Maine Public Employee Retirement System (PERS) building in Augusta (the Maine employee pension plan). Divest Maine is a consortium of environmental groups that is asking Maine PERS to obey the law that Maine passed in 2021, to divest from fossil fuels. There is […]

I think what President Trump is doing is worse than what President Nixon did. Fred Henderson Greenwood

Sen. Susan Collins is doing what Maine needs right now: standing up for science. In her powerful remarks at a recent Senate hearing on biomedical research, she warned that cutting federal science funding weakens not just our health and economy, but our national security. She’s right and Maine has a lot at stake. Federal agencies […]

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools […]

This week, I reached out to our Maine representatives regarding President Trump’s proposed budget cuts to public media. These cuts, along with all the other drastic, destructive and completely unnecessary hits to vital programs and departments of our government, they amount to war. A war waged by the Have-More-Than-Enoughs against the Have-Less-Thans. These cuts are […]

I join my voice to a writer’s May 4 letter about bringing back the comic strip Herb & Jamaal. This is one of the better comics in the paper. Why would you delete this one instead of, say, Hagar the Horrible? Please don’t follow the racism of our current federal administration. Carol Riley Cumberland Center