In ‘The Last Negroes at Harvard,’ Kent Garrett recalls his undergraduate days, and not fondly.
March 2020
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Our View: Broadband is a lifesaver in COVID crisis
Maine’s spotty internet service eliminates safe education options and puts public health at risk.
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Posted inGreg Kesich, Op-eds, Opinion
The View From Here: Life in the time of coronavirus
We are all going to find out if a few voluntary inconveniences can prevent a catastrophe.
Posted inOutdoors, Sports
‘If you can reach it, people have tried to manipulate it.’
So says a fisheries expert about the many dramatic changes in Maine’s fisheries over two centuries.
Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Maine landlords also suffer in COVID-19 disruption
With the courts closed, property owners cannot get the relief that they need and are entitled to by law.
Posted inFood, Vegan Kitchen
Vegan Kitchen: A meat-free diet in Maine is nothing new
In the first half of the 19th-century, some Mainers promoted a vegetarian diet. One doctor wrote that it did for “the wretched invalids what the best medical treatment had utterly failed to do.”
Posted inNation & World, New England, News, Politics
How Maine’s members of Congress voted last week
Congress passed a bill that allocates roughly $2.2 trillion to respond to the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, including health care, direct payments to consumers, unemployment benefits, and loans and grants to businesses.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Scientist’s warning must be a wake-up call for Maine
Nick Record, Ph.D., senior research scientist at Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, is an accomplished, meticulous mathematician. In a recent op-ed (“Maine Voices: To change Maine’s COVID-19 forecast, we can’t afford half measures,” March 25), he wrote, “We know from other regions around the world that … the time between 100 cases and 100 deaths […]
Posted inFood
Freeze your food to keep your cooking fresh for weeks to come
From bread to fruit to aromatics, here is how.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Woodard’s history of Maine is an illuminating one
Who knew that most of the witches at the Salem witch trials were Mainers fleeing the Anglo-Wabanaki wars (“Colony, Chapter III: Conquest,” March 1)? Just one detail from Staff Writer Colin Woodard’s eye-opening, carefully researched history of Maine that’s appeared over the past six Sundays in the Maine Sunday Telegram. Thank you, Colin. You are […]