Cynthia Dill

Olympia Snowe left Congress abruptly in "the year of the woman," and the race is on to find a leader who champions the issues that matter to women and families.

Efforts in Maine and across the United States to end access to birth control and other basic health care have...

Will 2012 be the year America gets it groove back, or are we going to send the same people to Washington that we have been sending for decades and hope things will change?

Against all odds I am considering running for the U.S. Senate against Olympia Snowe, who has been...

TOWNSHIP 1 RANGE 8, Maine -- In a blow to opponents, the owner of the two Katahdin-region paper mills told a north woods forum he doesn't think the proposed Maine Woods National Park would threaten his industry's wood supply.

Speaking before about 75 Katahdin Area Chamber of...

Being "anti-government" is hip these days. But facts often get in the way of ideology -- and economic progress.

Rural Maine needs jobs, desperately. In the north woods, where unemployment was 20.4% in September, timber wages and head count have collapsed, and supporters of the timber industry resist virtually all...

The opposite of corporate greed is personal generosity. Government policies that enable the former and prevent the latter are both worthy of protest. The people of Maine are being handed a gift of a national park that will create jobs, protect the environment and increase the quality of our lives....

"We could tell the pro-park from no-park instantly because the pro-park men wore immaculate hiking boots and the women wore stone faces, graying hair, and no bras." Mary Adams

The visit by Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar to Maine last August to Stearns High School in Millinocket,...

Two roads are diverging in the Maine woods. Let's take the one that will make all the difference!

In the final days of June, two different pieces of legislation came before Maine lawmakers, and they put in stark relief our choices and our priorities. One path takes us in a...

Roxanne Quimby is offering everyone in the world thousands of acres of pristine wilderness, and offering a hurting community the opportunity to realize the American dream. Is it too much to ask her to throw in an all-natural potion that will replenish the hair we are pulling out in frustration...

Sitting in his ivory tower reserved for men only in Portland, Maine, M.D. Harmon lectures readers about the myriad uses of irony while blaming "feminists" for a world where boys are valued much higher than girls.

And the irony apparently escapes him.

It's 2011 and there is not a...

Brookfield Asset Management, the "global asset manager focused on property, renewable power and infrastructure assets with approximately $150 billion of assets under management," is hoping to sell its Maine Katahdin Paper Mills in Millinocket and East Millinocket for $1 to International Grand Investors Corporation, part of...

Parts of Japan are thirteen feet closer to the United States as a result of the earthquake, but it feels even closer. The images put you there. You can hear the crying, smell the fetid air, feel the damp and heavy sorrow and yet you remain paralyzed and...

Pretend for a moment that I am a legislator. Now imagine me readings bills that would deny legal immigrants welfare benefits, require citizens of foreign descent to carry their papers or be arrested, require photo identification and proof of citizenship in order to vote, require candidates to prove citizenship, allow...

When asked whether protests like the ones taking place in Wisconsin by state employees might come to Maine, Governor LePage said this to a Politico reporter:

"I believe that the Declaration of Independence says life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Whenever someone forces me...

Convinced that all government is in a state of complete and utter crisis? Is the heavy weight of debt crushing the life out of our future prosperity?

Maybe the real load doomed to sink us is related to the girth of some of the guys running things around here....

Recent comments by Maine's governor have been distorted by the media, and the reporting has largely ignored his most important remarks. Yes, Governor LePage said, "so the worst case is some women may have little beards," in response to a question about the dangers of BPA, the additive...

"We need to be honest with the Maine people. This isn't about slamming anybody here; this is about paying your bills," said Paul LePage, speaking about the hospital debt that had been kicking around for over a decade. The Baldacci administration had of course paid down $3.7 billion...

Parting is such sweet sorrow when you drop him off at the bus station this cold, dark February morning in Maine. Its sweetness is the reminder that you are not affixed to each other by children, mortgage or habit alone, its sorrow the many lost opportunities for closeness.

A...

Maine has the lowest violent crime rate in the country, is blessed with a landscape and culture that are exquisite, and is ranked as the 17th best run state in the country. Jobless claims are the lowest since 2008, and the stock market is...

Maine, Inc. under the new LePage administration is hiring, but the pool of "qualified" candidates (i.e. men who think like Paul LePage) can't afford the meager government pay of $103,000 plus benefits. "Why would you want to take that pay cut?" asks Joe Bruno, the former Republican Leader,...

W is back in Texas, but we have our own unique opportunities for expression right here in the Whoopie Pie State. Our Tea Party Governor has told President Obama to go to hell, the NAACP to kiss his butt, wants to repeal sound environmental regulations and...