by New Maine Times Editorial Board
There is a lot we don't know about how Maine polices its citizens. Too many issues are not made readily available to the public, as we learned last month when the Maine State Police finally made public -- sort of -- a group of 19 ...
Posted Monday, May 3, 2021
by Gina Hamilton
President Joseph R. Biden. It feels so good to finally say that. As I watched him take his oath of office, and listened to his inaugural speech, I'm not ashamed to say that there were tears of relief and, yes, even joy, coming from my eyes ...
Posted Wednesday, January 20, 2021
by the New Maine Times Editorial Board
Bernie Sanders isn't president of the United States, but he might have more power than Joe Biden right where he is, courtesy of the win of two candidates in Georgia.
Sanders is poised to hold the gavel of the powerful Senate Budget ...
Posted Tuesday, January 19, 2021
by the New Maine Times Editorial Board
President Donald J. Trump will be gone in five days, before he faces his impeachment trial. However, he will face an impeachment trial a few days later, because he was impeached before he left office. There are several cases of impeachment of judges ...
Posted Friday, January 15, 2021
by New Maine Times Editorial Board
Many Republicans oppose efforts to bring President Donald Trump to justice in the wake of the Capitol riot, using the term "reconciliation" somewhat, shall we say, liberally.
But when there has been such injury, there is another half of the reconciliation process. That's ...
Posted Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Dear Mark,
You became mine the summer of your fifteenth year. You could not hear me try to help you to a better path; it was too late, perhaps, even then. You were witty, funny, smart, and friendly to a fault; you loved passionately but superficially, even when the consequences ...
Posted Friday, October 11, 2019
by Gina Hamilton
My crystal ball is slightly fogged up at the moment – might be my heavy breathing upon learning that the House was opening an impeachment inquiry – and therefore I make no prognostication about how this is going to go – yet.
But there are some stark similarities to the ...
Posted Saturday, September 28, 2019
by Gina Hamilton
There is a new organization guru around now, whose motto is "If you cannot touch an object with joy, it is time to thank it for its service and let it go."
That sounds so delightful, I'd like to try it, but I know what would ...
Posted Monday, January 21, 2019
by Gina Hamilton
Every now and then I find myself wondering, "Am I too old for this?" When something that once seemed to be a source of great joy becomes nothing more than a chore, for instance.
Like now. I love the holidays ... well, typically I love the holidays. I ...
Posted Thursday, December 20, 2018
by Gina Hamilton
So, it's that time of year again, down at Turning Tide Cottage, when we send out a dozen Yule parcels to those near and dear who happen to be far flung. We pride ourselves on our homemade ingenuity -- our dearest receive wild blueberry jam, made for ...
Posted Friday, November 23, 2018
by Gina Hamilton
In the interests of full disclosure, I'm a Democrat. In the interests of further full disclosure, I am a progressive Democrat who supported Bernie Sanders during the primary. But I voted for Hillary Clinton during the general election, as did most of my progressive friends, and ...
Posted Saturday, November 12, 2016
This election night is one we never thought we'd see. Hillary Clinton is poised to lose an election she should easily won, and a buffoon with no experience, no real policy, and no manners is poised to take over the White House from one of the gentlest, most genteel ...
Posted Tuesday, November 8, 2016
by Gina Hamilton
As many of you know, we work with children whom society has given up on. The reason society gives up is that it is often sick of the child's crap. It's understandable, on a day like today, when a former foster son is now in ...
Posted Friday, May 6, 2016
by Gina Hamilton
Yes. Depressed or mentally ill people are more likely to be the victims of crime than the perpetrators. Yes. We as a society should be doing everything possible to help the victims of mental illness to find happy, productive lives.
But let's not ignore what happened ...
Posted Tuesday, March 31, 2015
"My fellow Americans," President Barak Obama should say, "this is a very difficult speech to give. The people of Israel have spoken, and the Likud party has been returned to power, which means that Prime Minister Netanyahu will also return to power, in all likelihood.
"Over the last six years ...
Posted Tuesday, March 17, 2015
by Gina Hamilton
An old childhood friend shared a story from a notorious conservative site that I was shocked to have to agree with.
It was about a family who was threatened with the loss of their children because they let them walk outside unattended by adults.
Now, for younger ...
Posted Friday, March 6, 2015
This is a lesson for everyone who assumed that the repeated Benghazi hearings were entirely political.
The hearings should have been not about four guys, one an ambassador, who died in Libya, and the attempt or lack thereof to save them.
But that doesn't mean there wasn't a ...
Posted Friday, February 27, 2015
by Gina Hamilton
Down at Turning Tide Cottage, it was perhaps 12 degrees below zero last night when there was an electrical fire in the basement, in a cable that carried the 220 lines, including the dryer and maybe the hot water heater.
For those who don't know, the ...
Posted Saturday, February 14, 2015
by Gina Hamilton
It's cold. Not just ordinary late November cold, it's truly cold, with biting wind chills and dangerously chilly temperatures.
Not so dangerous for us, perhaps, but we had to move the ducks into the ancient root cellar this week, so I wandered over to Tractor ...
Posted Friday, November 21, 2014
by Gina Hamilton
The second of the three great harvest festivals in the Celtic pagan year is named for a Welsh god who was the son of the Earth Mother, called Mabon by some and Mea'n Fo'mhair by others, especially the druids of Ireland. In modern paganism, he ...
Posted Tuesday, September 16, 2014