CoverME.gov is linking Mainers to the health coverage they need. Mainers have options when looking for affordable health care coverage. They can also access help to sort through those options and enroll in coverage available at CoverME.gov. In fact, thousands of Mainers have already enrolled in coverage. CoverME.gov has a “compare plans” tool that can […]

Regarding the depiction of Thanksgiving dinner (Norman Rockwell’s “Freedom from Want”) accompanying the Nov. 26 letter to the editor “Rockwell would lack inspiration today”: There is no way in this world that Grandma could carry, much less bend over the table to deposit, her large turkey aboard her large, heavy platter without serious consequences. My […]

After what I experienced today, I wonder if the “COVID is a hoax folks” are right. One of the guests at a holiday party we went to (everyone there was vaccinated) tested positive for COVID several days later. Being the good citizens that we are and not wanting to risk adding to community spread, we […]

I appreciate all the current discussions on climate change and our efforts to develop a sustainable human society on planet Earth. I have yet to see, however, a definition of a sustainable system in any scientific journal or media source. Allow me to propose this definition: A system is said to be sustainable when it […]

Re: “Letter to the editor: Rockwell would lack inspiration today” (Nov. 26): My fellow reader need look no further than Norman Rockwell’s 1964 illustration “The Problem We All Live With” – depicting U.S. Marshals escorting a young Black girl to school and protecting her from the invective and projectiles of a racist mob – to […]

We Mainers may believe we achieved something useful in the Nov. 2 election, but I, for one, have trouble seeing what that is. Our neighbors in New England were willing to pay for access to clean electricity generated in Quebec and delivered to Lewiston that Mainers would probably, with some negotiating, have access to as […]

The COVID-19 pandemic has had a devastating impact across the globe, with millions of lives and livelihoods lost, unlike anything we have experienced in decades. The last time the entire world was this focused on a pandemic threat was over two decades ago, when HIV/AIDS was killing almost 4,000 people every day and new infections […]

In the fight to defeat COVID-19, we need to redefine the term “fully vaccinated.” It has been commonly used to denote the number of people or the percentage of the population who have received at least two doses of the mRNA vaccines or the one shot of Johnson & Johnson. But it is quickly becoming […]