Maine's long and cold winters may help keep our State's population low, but our harsh climate also accounts for what is unique and valuable about our land and our people.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury's special qualities.

President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

Winter in Maine is a time of alternating rest and frenzied activity.

To do what we are doing in this budget to our children, cutting their health care funds, decreasing opportunity, simply so we can pay for tax cuts and a war in Iraq is beyond belief, and we need to reverse it.

They don’t have special rights because we have civil rights laws that protect them. The laws work both ways.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It’s bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

The mercury rule writers also ignored mercury’s special qualities.

President Bush’s mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office.

If the parties get too close together they lose their identities, if they get too far apart you’re not going to get a whole lot done because you almost always need to have some folks on the other side of the aisle to accomplish anything.