Today, internet access is more crucial than ever. That’s why it’s been encouraging to see efforts from Maine lawmakers to bring connectivity to every remaining unserved Mainer who still lacks it. State agencies and town select boards across the state are considering how to best close Maine’s digital divide with the significant federal funding that […]

Re: “Portland Museum of Art design finalists miss the mark” (Dec. 4, Page D3): Robert Kahn’s Maine Sunday Telegram Maine Voices column not only echoes my disappointment in the four finalists’ designs for expansion of the Portland Museum of Art, but also reminds me of the contemporary curatorial trend to dumb down a museum’s permanent […]

While Democrats are thrilled that Herschel Walker lost his bid for that last Senate seat, in truth – he won a long time ago. Walker scored a victory for a dangerous sort of populism: for celebrity over substance; for entertainment over authentic engagement; for winning over true public service, and for the us-versus-them thinking that […]

Things are dying. The Earth. Humans. Our main source of energy, fossil fuels. The United States has been using fossil fuels for over 150 years. This will change soon, however, whether we want it to or not because the fossil fuel supply has begun to dwindle in recent years. Not only that, fossil fuels have […]

Re: “Big issues await legislators in new session, starting with heating Mainers’ homes” (Dec. 4): It’s disappointing that the Maine Republican Party opposes renewable energy. The Gulf of Maine is warming faster than over 95 percent of the world’s oceans, and the rising temperature already impacts lobstering. If this information is available to everyday Mainers, […]

The juxtaposition of two articles published in the Dec. 7 edition of the Portland Press Herald raises serious questions about the wisdom of Gov. Mills’ priorities. One article, “Emergency medical services at ‘breaking point,’ commission finds” (Page B3), describes how emergency medical services, particularly in rural areas of Maine, are in imminent danger of collapse […]

Re: “Plan to provide heating assistance and relief checks fails in Maine Senate” (Dec. 7): Three members of the Maine Senate just killed a modest heating assistance package that would have benefited all but the most wealthy of the state’s most wealthy. Three people. Let that sink in, and if you’re not furious, I congratulate […]