Some Folks Demand a Wall but Their Reasons Crumble

Some Folks Demand a Wall but Their Reasons Crumble

I’m not the first, nor will I be the last to point out how Robert Frost’s poem, “Mending Wall,” critiques current conversations about building a wall on our southern border. In the poem, Frost and his neighbor are doing their annual ritual of mending the wall that...

I don’t understand

It happened in Chatham County, North Carolina, less than an hour from my house. On Saturday, in various places from Bear Creek to Siler City, people looking for an early morning high loaded up on cocaine. Did they know that their ride from reality was also laced with...

Drug War Shifts to Maine’s Jails and Prisons

A man with a fake wig and beard walked into the CVS Pharmacy at Stone Street in Augusta, Maine, on May 8, handed the pharmacist a note and walked out with 2,154 30mg Oxycodone pills. The street value is $75,000. He had two options: Make a few cell calls and lay off...