There is no way to please everyone when it comes to COVID. There is no precedent for managing this epidemic, but following expert, scientific advice is the best policy. The recall group has changed their reasons for wanting to fire our superintendent multiple times. The latest reason is criticism of Regional School Unit 21 COVID […]

Who will admit that they agree with Rep. MaryAnne Kinney’s rationale for voting against the Equal Rights Amendment to the Maine Constitution? After all, according to Kinney, things aren’t that bad for women in Maine. She argues, in Staff Writer Penelope Overton’s paraphrase, that “Maine has one of the smallest wage gaps in the nation.” […]

We all want to feel safe and secure, whether it’s in our own neighborhood, going shopping or eating out in a restaurant. There’s a level of trust that the public has toward government to provide adequate law and order. In recent years, that trust is quickly eroding. Movements to defund the police and lax prosecutorial […]

As I aged, I held on to a hope or belief that our world was improving over time. But now I’m having second thoughts. Has it always been a mess? Most likely. Because of media, technology, the internet and new ways to communicate, are we now hearing, reading, seeing or learning more of how life […]

Efficient allocation of products in a market economy requires that their prices reflect their full costs of production. Regrettably, that’s not true for those intensive in carbon. The atmosphere is an unpriced resource, free to pollute. So, carbon-intensive products are too cheap, consumption is too high and environmental damage is too great. To correct this, […]

Re: “Gov. Mills preparing utility accountability bill, with threat of consumer-owned option” (Feb. 1): It is good news that Gov. Mills is willing to consider a buyout of Central Maine Power, but CMP is only part of the problem with electricity service in Maine. It has been my experience in dealing with the Public Utilities […]

The Legislature’s Judiciary Committee has an opportunity to correct the course of Maine’s history by endorsing L.D. 1626 and recognizing the sovereignty of the four federally recognized tribes of the Wabanaki Confederacy with whom we share this state. Tribal sovereignty has been denied by Maine law for over 200 years, since Maine attained statehood in […]

We, the American people, would like to thank the Republican Party for further defining our rights to assembly and speech. We are now able to gather as a group and loot, pillage and trash public and private property and assault police officers and call it “legitimate political discourse.” Jake Hawkins Arundel