Re: “Legal obstacles could sink Bar Harbor’s initiative to limit cruise ship passengers” (July 27, Page A1): Portland’s liberal activists now want to limit the number of cruise ship visits and the number of people who can get off these ships. Look at the tens of thousands of dollars these people spend. It harkens back […]

Last February, I contributed a small sum to a major-party candidate for the 2022 midterm elections here in Maine. Boy, talk about unintended consequences! Since then, I have received 10 to 20 emails per day (17 yesterday) exhorting me to contribute to other candidates of that party. Most of these are not even from Maine […]

The Supreme Court worships originalism now, and the court is making bad decisions. Originalism isn’t bad. It simply states that the Constitution should be interpreted literally and as the Founders intended. While the concept sounds reasonable, originalism should not be the only determining factor in legal decisions. The law is too complex. Take murder, for […]

My wife and I moved to South Bristol from Florida a year ago, after living in New York, Los Angeles and Boston and on Cape Cod. When our daughter moved to Portland, we rediscovered Maine’s beauty, laidback lifestyle, and – under Gov. Mills – refreshingly sane approach to politics and policy. While Florida’s governor opposed […]

In the July 24 Telegram, the Maine Department of Corrections identified possible locations for smaller, secure youth detention centers (“Maine DOC suggests potential sites for smaller youth detention centers,” Page B3). One of the locations was Mahoney Middle School, on Ocean Street in South Portland. As a retired South Portland School Department school nurse, and […]

I had a disturbing thought recently: What if a media outlet created a reality show based on today’s abortion rights culture war? Call it “Abortion Busters” or “Fetal Defenders” or “Gestation Vigilantes.” The show might follow individuals or groups of private citizens as they seek to defend the rights of unborn fetuses by keeping watch […]

On July 10, the Telegram published an article speaking to the rising costs for landfilling municipal sludge rather than spreading it on land (“Latest sticker shock from PFAS: Rising sewer rates,” Page A1). However, it inappropriately implies that bills passed this year to protect state-owned landfill capacity from toxic out-of-state waste and to protect our […]

State Sen. Mark W. Lawrence, chair of the Energy, Utilities and Technology Committee, recently voiced his support for saving both the Shawmut Dam and salmon (Maine Voices, June 27). As a member of the $8.1 billion forest products industry, and an avid fly fisherman, I would like to thank him for wading into the waters […]