One common sight in any Maine town these days is a “Help Wanted” sign. For our industries and others, the greatest barrier we face today is the lack of available workforce and low workforce participation. These issues are especially challenging for rural businesses where the services required to support a robust workforce are lacking. One […]

Years of widening economic inequality, compounded by the pandemic and political storm and stress, have given Americans the impression that the country is on the wrong track. Now there’s empirical data to show just how far the country has run off the rails: Life expectancies have been falling. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention […]

In Maine and elsewhere, transphobic legislation seeks to enshrine a dangerous and unorthodox notion of religious freedom.

On March 23, this newspaper chose to publish an opinion column headlined “Tom Waddell: Maine’s crisis pregnancy centers only serve to deceive” that, ironically enough, was meant to deceive it’s readership, taint the great work and reputation of Maine Pregnancy Centers (MPCs), and spread ill will toward them. What’s equally disturbing is the KJ’s lack of […]

Every year during Holy Week, we Christians face a problem. The Gospel narrative that tells of the death of Jesus attributes blame to the Jews instead of the Roman authorities who were the ones that actually charged Jesus with insurrection and hung him on a cross, a Roman method of capital punishment. Because of these […]