This article, by Robert W. Glover of the University of Maine, was originally published on the Bangor Daily News opinion page on August 13, 2019. Robert F. Bukaty | APGovernor Janet Mills speaks at a news conference in the State House, Wednesday, Feb. Read More
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The news item a few days ago about the “cotton candy” lobster caught off the Maine coast produced this cartoon idea of combining rare lobsters and popular ice cream flavors. Read More
If you witness a mass shooting, do not post the video on Facebook. Publishing video of the killer’s face or the terror they cause only communicates to at-risk individuals that they will be a sensation. Read More
Anyone who has threatened self-harm, has threatened to harm others or is mentally unstable should not have access to a gun. At all. Read More
Since 2001, bold decriminalization and harm reduction measures have turned Portugal’s opioid crisis around. The United States, and Maine particularly, can learn from their approach. Read More
The founders couldn't have imagined that the Second Amendment would someday be used to enable mass shootings; in fact, they couldn't have imagined mass shootings, at all. Read More
A trade war that no one is winning. Tariffs drive down U.S. lobster exports to China by 46 percent. —News Item… Read More
America’s immigration laws should be enforced, but tormenting children and punishing workers for speaking out, without addressing the widespread hiring and employment of undocumented workers, looks more like intimidation than enforcement. Read More
Letters to the editor for Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019: Duck photo, Trump’s brand of patriotism, Republican superpowers, Trump action on kidney disease gives me hope. Read More
Jeffrey Epstein's death almost certainly means that astounding blunders occurred, perhaps by multiple personnel at the Bureau of Prisons. Read More
Sticky juice boxes. Emergency pit stops. And all those gripes and grumbles from the backseat. Read More
Every nationalist movement lays claim to victimhood, and for aggrieved Hindu nationalists a Muslim-majority Indian state with special rights is a permanent insult. Read More
Diogenes today. Read More
In a serious political culture, long before the last three mass shootings, the media would have been pressing Republicans at every turn to address President Donald Trump's blatant racism and efforts to stir up anger and fear of refugees fleeing for their lives. Read More
Senate GOP leader Mitch McConnell is from Kentucky, but he epitomizes what is wrong with the nation's capital. Read More
Joaquin Castro and many others rightly point to the large megaphone that Trump wields to spread division as part of a cynical, dangerous political strategy. Read More
Letters to the editor for Monday, August 12, 2019: Representation we can believe in, turning off the news, concert noise and city ordinances. Read More
What the president said about hatred rings true. But he is wrong in blaming mental illness. Read More
It’s time that we look past our differences and make an effort to build relationships with people who are different from ourselves. Read More
The American president is closer to being king than the constitutional drafters wanted. Read More
