With Thanksgiving right around the corner and the December holidays looming just beyond, the pressure is on to finalize plans to celebrate—including deciding whether or not to bring your current partner along to meet the fam.
It may seem tempting to become complacent now that Maine is once again a blue state. Paul LePage's second term is winding down, as the governor is apparently planning to flee the state (good riddance!) for Florida (you’re welcome to him!). Additionally, many state GOP hopefuls with similarly…
If there still is one widely held truism among professional campaign operatives it is that Democratic voters need more, um, encouragement to get to the voting booth than their republican counterparts. While Democratic voters outnumber Republicans, it is almost as if divine intervention has c…
Despite being questioned about sexual misconduct allegations before the June 12 primary election, Jon Gale was determined to stay in the running for Cumberland County District Attorney.
In this column, Weathering the Storm, I spotlight community-based solutions to climate change in Maine and the region — the territory of the Wabanaki People. The following is an interview with Sherri Mitchell, an author and indigenous rights attorney, born and raised on the Penobscot Indian …
With days to go before Cumberland County voters elect their next district attorney, the Phoenix interviewed Independent candidate Jonathan Sahrbeck.
The American government wants to redefine what it means to be American. As though history has taught us nothing. As though we have not been here before.
With just days to go before Cumberland County voters elect their next district attorney, the Phoenix sat down with independent candidate Jonathan Sahrbeck to capture his views on everything from broken windows policing, to opioid use disorder, to greater transparency and accountability in th…
How am I going to be dehumanized today? This is the question in my mind when I wake up each morning, knowing the internet contains some fresh horror passed down from those tasked with protecting the white elite — I mean...society.
Look, I’m all about women’s right. I support empowering women, pushing back against the inordinate amount of power wielded by men at the top levels of business and government, and urging feminists to embrace all women’s needs and not ignore or downplay those of Black women and other women of color.
Balls. Nuts. Nads. Bollocks. Stones. Cojones. Whatever you wanna call them, this week we’re talking about testicles.
In the wake of both Dr. Christine Blasey Ford’s heroic testimony and Sen. Susan Collins’s abhorrent cowardice, I’ve seen much of the same old rhetoric on the interwebs. Calls for men to round up their misogynist friends, suggestions for women to co-opt the anthem protest, pleading statuses a…
Cumberland County voters have a clear choice on November 6: elect a district attorney who sees harm in our justice system and wants to reduce it. Or elect a DA who thinks the system is working just fine and has no plans for change.
Three weeks ago I stood in a crowd of thousands outside the Global Climate Action Summit in San Francisco. Hosted by California governor Jerry Brown, the international summit was billed as a crucial moment between the 2015 Paris Accord and the 2020 goal post for curbing carbon emissions, ide…
This week’s column was supposed to be about the alarming increase in rates of certain sexually transmitted infections recently reported both nationally and in Maine. I wanted to write about how transmission happens, what prevention looks like, how treatment works, and how this is a crisis of…
I tend to take baseball far too seriously for my own good. I usually view games with a cold, analytical eye informed by a lifetime spent reading about baseball history and a calculated knowledge of statistical probability. I often wish it was just an entertaining game of unlimited possibilit…