Thank you for Tom Putnam’s July 7 op-ed on David Mallett (“Summer’s start stirs memories of Mallett“) as well as the Clay Hipp piece last December and all the other good words about Mallett following his death. It’s a long time after the last week in June near the first quarter moon when the summer […]

Once again, Sen. Susan Collins managed to betray her constituents, despite her ultimate “No” vote on President Trump’s big, mean-spirited, nasty bill, which will severely hurt millions of Americans, and thousands of Mainers. Collins could have voted against sending the bill to the Senate floor. This would have incurred the ire of the White House. […]

Since when is protecting Mainers’ health “no longer consistent with EPA funding priorities”? The May 23 photo of farmer Adam Nordell walking over fields contaminated with “forever chemicals” told a disheartening story (“After hailing them as important, EPA cancels PFAS research grants”). Despite reassurances that “delays due to the reorganization of the EPA” will not […]

Donating clothing to a thrift shop, food kitchen, distribution center or church group is a generous, thoughtful gesture. The benefits are twofold: the needy people have clothing to keep them decent, warm, presentable; the donor has aided other people in their daily struggle with poverty. Warm emotional feelings all around. Volunteers at these charitable organizations […]

I recently had the pleasure of touring the Maine Military Museum in South Portland, led by director/curator Lee Humiston. It may be the most impressive military museum I’ve ever visited, and that includes the National WWII Museum in New Orleans, the Smithsonian and the D-Day Museum at Normandy. There are authentic displays from every war […]