The city of Bath needs to take a second look at what it’s planning to do to wildlife in order to protect humans, as officials have already unanimously decided to partner with the Department of Agriculture to set traps before the end of the month. Will this work? “The USDA cannot guarantee this is going […]
February 2020
Letter to the editor: Coverage of Irish election incomplete, misleading
The AP report mistakenly implied that ‘the IRA was solely responsible for the death toll in Northern Ireland during The Troubles.’
Letter to the editor: Imagine what foreign spies have recorded about Trump
Has it occurred to anyone how lax the security is around our clueless president? He was apparently unaware of the recordings made by Lev Parnas (an associate of the president’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani), including the one in which the president instructed his aides to “get rid of” the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, […]
People & Business: Feb. 12
Bicycle Coalition of Maine hires S. Portland woman to lead nonprofit The Bicycle Coalition of Maine announced it has hired a new executive director, following a national search. Jean Sideris will take the reins at the nonprofit on Feb. 25. Sideris, an ardent bicycle commuter and road-rider from South Portland, most recently served as the […]
The Wrap: Our favorite food groups – wings, beer and chocolate
A Portland restaurant changes its name, and a vegan restaurant is coming to Biddeford.
New program trains new Mainers as bank tellers
Students in the program have former financial or business experience as professionals in their nine home countries.
Commentary: ‘Stolen’ elections open wounds that may never heal
Allegations are flying left and right about potential – or actual – efforts to unfairly and secretly influence the outcome of the 2020 election. It’s a time when political scientists and constitutional scholars like to look back on other times when the electoral process was, you might say, helped along by practices that either were […]
Letter to the editor: Protect at-risk students, educators by voting ‘no’ on 1
As a retired educator of many years, including principal of two elementary schools in Maine, I witnessed firsthand what it meant to allow parents to refuse to have their children immunized against certain communicable diseases, claiming religious and philosophical differences. School nurses all over Maine have dealt with this issue for years, since it is […]
Troy Jackson: When it comes to health care, putting Maine patients first is long overdue
The Patients First Health Care package clamps down on fees and puts an end to abusive billing practices.
Leonard Pitts: Who gets to tell what stories?
Critics of the novel ‘Dirt’ question whether a white author should be able to profit from imagining the trauma of Mexican migrants.