The last time I looked, the official U.S. currency was acceptable to all businesses in our once-fair nation. However, what I now experience at the major box stores is anything but. Walmart, BJ’s and other major stores now make you use self-checkout terminals that do not accept cash. Yes, I know that there are hiring […]

I was particularly moved by Rev. Marian Edmonds-Allen’s call to action, “We can reconcile LGBTQ+ rights and religious liberty” (Maine Voices, Nov. 2). All Americans, no matter their sexual orientation or gender identity, should be afforded the same freedoms and opportunities. And with this week being Transgender Awareness Week, it is an especially apt time […]

In a last-ditch effort to keep New England Clean Energy Connect on life support, Central Maine Power pushes forward, cutting trees and planting poles, hoping to make the case for “vested interest.” CMP was put on notice a long time ago about the perils of traveling down this road of death by a thousand cuts. […]

Re: Monday’s Maine Voices column: Maine’s charitable immunity statute provides organizations such as the Catholic Church with immunity from civil lawsuits by victims of child sexual abuse. The Catholic Church in Maine receives $55 million a year in revenues and owns approximately $140 million in assets. Victims are denied access to depositions, discovery, a judge […]

Re: “Some say public art project crosses a line” (Nov. 11, Page A1): I am writing to express my opposition to and revulsion at the recent public “art” project by Caitlin Cameron, in which lines are marked on Portland sidewalks and streets. In my view, those lines are offensive and more like graffiti than art. […]

What to make of Republicans? Deep down they know the election was not stolen, yet they persist in the Big Lie. They know that true democracy allows all eligible citizens to vote, yet they pass voter suppression laws. They know elections should be conducted by impartial entities, yet they try to install their political stooges […]

The vaccine mandate supports a healthy society and, necessarily, a healthy workforce. To refuse to acknowledge medical research and its responsibility for a healthy society would seem to beg the reasons for science and its conclusions in the first place. No large amount of gray matter is necessary to appreciate the conclusions of scientific research […]

I was watching the news the other day, when the subject of global warming came up; so off we go to the most northern village in the Inuit Nation. The commentator was telling his audience that the rising sea level will soon inundate this village. In the background, an ATV (fossil fueled) rambles by. The […]