This election season, if you'd sooner gouge out your own eyes than vote for a pro-life candidate, log on to www.knowyourcandidate.com, a new site launched this week by the Family Planning Action Fund of Maine, the Maine Women's Lobby, and Planned Parenthood of Northern New England. The site includes voting records and survey results from local candidates on issues related to reproductive choice.

Well, fall has begun. It's the season just cool enough to make us more productive and just sunny enough to keep us away from the cloud-induced depression which can make motivation go into hibernation. If you're feeling motivated to beat a bongo drum and yell about the War in Iraq in the City That Never Sleeps, your day is close at hand.