March 2020

Re: “Our View: State should not retreat on Maine women’s health” (Feb. 20): Your editorial in favor of L.D. 1613 is grossly inaccurate and misleading, as comprehensively pointed out by many others, including the Christian Civic League. Women’s health services are abundantly available without the objectionable use of federal funds to (in effect) support abortion, […]

Do This

Two new plays take on the contents of a storage container and the mother of a school shooter

by Bob Keyes March 2, 2020March 6, 2020

Bare Portland and the Dramatic Repertory Company present the plays in Portland this week.

Letters

Letter to the Editor: State should reform vehicle excise tax system

March 2, 2020March 3, 2020

Mainers are being overcharged with a tax that is not collected in most states.

Times Record Opinion

Michael Reagan: Sick of the media hype

by Michael Reagan Making Sense March 2, 2020March 1, 2020

Two weeks ago, I was happily sailing on a huge cruise ship in the Indian Ocean. My wife Collen is a travel agent and I was tagging along with her and her group on a Celebrity Cruise Line ship as it sailed from Dubai to Singapore and back with 2,300 souls aboard. Everyone on board […]

Community News

Community meals

March 2, 2020February 27, 2020

MONDAY Community lunch, noon. Free and open to all. 202 Woodfords St., Portland. Provided by Wayside Food Programs and hosted by Woodfords Congregational Church. 775-4939 TUESDAY Community lunch, noon. Free and open to all. 409 Cumberland Ave., Portland. Provided by Wayside Food Programs and hosted by Avesta Housing. 775-4939. • Community dinner, 5 p.m. 297 Cumberland Ave., […]

Letters

Letter to the editor: Study overlooks clean-energy benefits of consumer-owned Maine utility

March 2, 2020March 1, 2020

Sierra Club Maine strongly supports consumer ownership of Central Maine Power and Emera as an indispensable step toward a zero-carbon future. The findings of the London Economics International study confirm that a consumer-owned utility has financial benefits over the 30-year horizon of Maine’s climate goals. Unfortunately, the study has serious flaws – most notably, it […]

Editorials, Opinion

Another View: Trump takes highly selective umbrage with high court justices

by New York Daily News March 2, 2020March 2, 2020

The president’s demand that Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg sit out his cases show how he defines ‘impartiality.’

Community News

Briefs

March 2, 2020February 27, 2020

New director for Springvale Public Library SPRINGVALE Lesley Unger, of Rochester, New Hampshire, has taken over as director of Springvale Public Library, the independent library serving Sanford-Springvale and surrounding communities. Unger, a native of Winnipeg, Manitoba, most recently served as technical and administrative librarian for the Laconia Public Library in New Hampshire. Prior to […]