Meredith Brubaker’s recent opinion piece regarding lessons to be learned from the Somali immigration to Lewiston in 2002 outlines critically important civic lessons for all of us in Maine. I would like to add that that the seeds for acceptance were already in place in Lewiston by highlighting the importance of John Jenkins, Maine’s first […]

The fact that 78% of Maine physicians surveyed said that climate change threatens their patients’ health (“Climate change is already affecting Mainers’ health, doctors say,” May 27) is both alarming and unsurprising, as most of us are clearly dealing with ticks, heat and anxiety. But it was surprising and refreshing to learn that the American […]

Portland taxpayers need to wake up! Almost everyone I know – particularly those of us who have already put children through the local school system or are childless – are outraged by the constant tax increases in the name of the social experiment Portland has become (see Kathleen Finn’s brilliant summary of this reckless procedure […]

There was a time when there were enough people of goodwill, on both sides, that government did its work largely for the benefit of everyone. That, however, was before the dream to “Make America Great Again” emerged as the clarion call of an unprincipled man who knew the way to everyone’s deepest fear, whatever it […]

My thanks to Daniel Brennan, MaineHousing director, for the May 23 opinion piece “Embrace affordable housing for those who make Maine better,” and to John Wasileski, developer/owner of Oceanview at Falmouth, for his May 24 opinion piece, “The time for workforce housing in Falmouth is now.” Both address the workforce housing crisis beyond giving lip […]

With the 2024 presidential election not long off, it occurred to me that it might be interesting to conduct a thought experiment for members of both parties. So, here goes: Suppose in the 2012 presidential election that President Obama narrowly lost to Mitt Romney. President Obama then proceeded to claim that he lost because large […]

While Maine Rep. Chellie Pingree is to be congratulated for seeking to allow asylum seekers to work sooner after their arrival (“Let asylum seekers work,” May 21) – both for their own benefit and ours – we must be cautious in developing such policies to avoid the exploitation of immigrants and children in the sweatshops, […]