Mount Vernon and Vienna, population 2,334, share a library whose staff is the epitome of grace and good manners. The library offers all kinds of services including inter-library loan, which I use a lot, so I asked for an unusual book published in 1995 and was informed delivery was not guaranteed anymore. Why? Because libraries […]

For most of my seven decades the cry has been to cut taxes for the rich, make deductions, exemptions, loopholes and outright handouts to the rich. The rich will take the money and trickle it on down to everyone with higher wages and benefits. This trickle down economics is a scam; it has never worked […]

I strongly support Rep. Laurel Libby’s right to voice her opinion on the rights of biological and nonbinary women without censure. What she should apologize for is for posting a teen’s identity and photo in any media. Every adult should know how dangerous that is to the teen in an environment where doxxing can threaten […]

President Donald Trump has introduced his beautiful tariffs to destroy the economy to save it. This is a fever dream of a fabulist. There is no plan for his marvelous revolution. Every revelation is a big surprise, like a game show. Corporations and businesses were given no heads up as to what was going to […]

The canceled $35 million grant to Wolfe’s Neck Center for Agriculture and Environmental would have been wasted anyway since we’ve known for decades that the primary cause of climate change and environmental degradation, loss of biodiversity, food insecurity and the rise in degenerative, zoonotic and environmental disease is raising animals as products. On a planet […]

To my knowledge, our legislators have yet to acknowledge that this effort by the MAGA party is a coup. It is time that our representatives and senators stop being apologists for this regime. They no longer need to feel that they are “sticking their necks out” by standing up to be counted among those trying […]

As a child psychologist, practicing in Lewiston-Auburn for 40 years, I believe that Rep. Laurel Libby’s posting of a photograph and personal information for someone else’s child is the definition of child abuse. She was censured for this breach of ethics, not for her position on transgender youth. I find it difficult to understand how […]

This year there is much debate over the state budget. This has, therefore, put a pause on making decisions on proposed bills that could change the landscape of Maine law. However, I believe it is still worthwhile to bring to the discussion, for when we can make decisions: what bills should we be deciding on? […]