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I offer my heartfelt, thunderous congratulations to the workers at Coffee By Design for ratifying their union contract. It’s my hope their solidarity will inspire workers at other Maine coffee shops to reach out to Local 327 of the Laborers’ International Union of North America to learn how they, too, can unionize their workplaces. I’d […]
Gun violence is an abomination. It’s appropriate that murderer Robert Card’s brain is being examined, but I find it dispiriting that politicians in Augusta are still not taking meaningful steps to create new gun laws after the mass slaughter of people in Lewiston. It appears to me that respectful moments of silence have transformed into […]
The gun violence massacre in Lewiston is soul-sickening. It’s a horror; Mainers can’t respond to this tragedy with the same indifference that follows other mass shootings in America. According to the Giffords Law Center, Maine ranks 27th in the United States for restrictiveness of its gun laws. Maine does not require waiting periods for weapon […]
Re: “Letter to the editor: We have strategies to reduce gun suicides – let’s use them” (Sept. 30): I have enormous gratitude for Kathleen McFadden for her recent letter about protecting Mainers from the horrors of gun violence. When I read about the tragic suicide by gun in Holden, or the increasingly common school lockdowns […]
I’m immensely proud that Maine is a leader in our nation’s growing pro-union labor movement. Recently, Staples workers in Brunswick did something I view as courageous – they petitioned to form the first Staples union in our entire country. There are nearly 1,000 Staples retail stores in the U.S., and it is hardworking Mainers who […]