Let the internet wars begin! Consolidated Communications/Fidium cable and bucket trucks have been spotted seven days a week, even on Easter Sunday, installing fiber optic cable directly to our homes. That is exciting! It was only a matter of time before we heard from Spectrum: “Great news! Your internet is now 2X faster at no […]

Regi Robnett’s April 26 letter to the editor (“GOP must rein in anger, expand focus on issues,” Page A6) said that Democrats need to speak up about the Biden administration’s accomplishments. She did not list any. Here are some: A 40-year high inflation rate; nearly 2 million illegal immigrants coming across our southern border in […]

The recent legal action to end the Sunday ban on hunting (“Lawsuit contends Maine’s right-to-food amendment allows for Sunday hunting,” April 27), citing the new Maine constitutional amendment on the right to food, not only illustrates “Larry’s Law of Unintended Consequences” but also portends what is to come. Up next will be challenges to Maine’s […]

I watched the videos in fascination after a Florida judge invalidated the mask mandate for interstate travel. People on aircraft in flight were ripping their masks off and screaming with delight. Until the COVID-19 infection numbers come down enough to make air travel safe without masks, I have a suggestion that might make the vulnerable […]

I cringe when I hear we have to accomplish some goal by a certain date, framed in decades (“by 2030”; “by 2050”) to avoid climate change “catastrophe.” We’re already well into the catastrophe! There is no clear, bright line on one side of which is no catastrophe and, on the other, catastrophe. We already have […]

Re: “Congress Square Park’s $7.2 million makeover has begun. Expect disruptions.” (April 22): The Portland powers that be have decided that Congress Square Park needs an overhaul. I assume that they consider this spending on tomfoolery the next best thing to selling the park to the Westin hotel, the attempt at which resulted in a […]

The recovery of panda bears from near-extinction thanks to Chinese and Western conservationists is worth celebrating. Yet, behind this victory is a contradiction about their cousins – called “moon bears” – thanks to the golden crescent on their chests. They are also called “bile bears.” There are an estimated 12,500 of them held in crush […]

Russia is invading Ukraine as America’s Southwest border is being invaded by foreign nationals from all over the world. From February 2021, just one month after Joseph Robinette Biden Jr. swore his oath of office, until March 2022, nearly 3 million foreign nationals entered the United States of America in violation of U.S. law. In […]