Democratic state Sen. Mattie Daughtry is a Maine person. She encapsulates our Maine values of working hard for good causes, devotion to our community and land, doing her part, and being there for others when it matters most. I am a Brunswick resident and an educator and I have known Mattie for years. Our paths […]

I invite others to join me in voting to reelect Democratic Sen. Eloise Vitelli on Nov. 8. Eloise has served the people of Maine both as a legislator and through New Ventures Maine. She supports increasing the minimum wage so hardworking Mainers working full time have the chance to earn a livable wage. She cosponsored […]

I am supporting Democrat Henry Ingwersen for Maine Senate District 32. My reasons for supporting Henry are because of the care and compassion he has for individuals and his community. My daughter was one of Henry’s students and he was one of her best teachers. A dedicated educator, Henry made sure all children believed they […]

Wow! A professor raises the bar, has high expectations and he gets fired – because students complained that the class was just “too hard.” And New York University succumbs to the whining. A reminder, colleges and universities are suppose to be schools of ‘higher’ education. In reality, are they now going to dumb down the […]

Those who plotted an armed uprising against our democratic republic should be charged with treason and tried, and those found guilty must be locked up for life or executed. I am a 10th- and 12th-generation Yankee White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, and I believe that no citizen of this country should ever be permitted to foment treason […]

I am grateful for Thomas Urquhart’s excellent review of my book, “A Flick of Sunshine,” written with my son Alexander J. Hill, which appeared in the Telegram on Oct. 2 (“ ‘A Flick of Sunshine’ spins a thrilling yarn about a real-life Bath sailor in the late 19th century,” Page E4). It is superbly written […]

The Sept. 18 Telegram article by reporter Tux Turkel, about Central Maine Power’s request for an estimated $10-per-month rate increase to cover significant transmission network expansions, nicely illuminates a fundamental 21st-century political reality: Nobody wants to pay today to mitigate tomorrow’s large, unavoidable climate dangers. The underlying environmental reality is that the planned (and necessary) […]

I recently had open heart surgery at Maine Medical Center. It was quite an experience. First, the notion that one’s heart can be removed from the body and that surgeons use a vein to bypass blockages in one’s heart is complex enough and risky enough to give patients concern, to say the least. That surgeons […]