We Are Spending $1 Billion A Week

But Like The Rest Of The Country, Maine Has Reached An Impasse, For Most Of The Mercury That Fouls Our Skies, Waters And Land Comes From Outside Our Borders.

President Bush's Mercury Rule Is A Gift To The Big Energy Companies That Helped Put Him In Office

Incivility Is A Symptom, Not The Disease. We've Always Had Partisan Conflict In Congress, And We Always Will. Yet When I Worked For A Year (1970-71) On The Staff Of Sen. Ed Muskie Of Maine, This Was A Different Place, More Collegial, More Sensitive To Data, More Concerned About All Of The American People. I Think Because The For-profit Media Prizes Conflict Above Cooperation And Sound Bites Above Analysis, Politicians Have Learned To Adapt To Those Tendencies. Consequently, Our Public Debates Are Dumbed Down As Our Problems Grow More Complex.

Under Current Federal Policy On Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Only Those Stem Cell Lines Derived Before August 9, 2001 Are Eligible For Federally Funded Research.

Despite The Increase In World Attention Toward Sudan In The Past Months, The Genocide In Darfur Has Continued Without Any Serious Attempt By The Sudanese Government To Do What Governments Primarily Exist To Do, Protect Their Citizens.