Greg Kesich’s Aug. 22 column suggested that the hardhat that U.S. Rep Jared Golden wore at an event at the Piscataqua River Bridge was part of “a costume” and “just for show.” The fact is, that hardhat was given to the congressman by a proud member of the Laborers’ International Union, representing the dozens of […]

If you had an opportunity to save a human life, with no harm to your own, would you do it? Think of a 6-year-old child, cancer ravaging his body, who has to be out in public. Maybe he is on his way to the hospital or to see a doctor. Maybe he just needed to […]

I really get tired of hearing that high earners don’t pay their fair share of federal income taxes. Currently, the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay approximately 40 percent of all federal income taxes, according to the Tax Foundation, while the top 5 percent pay about 60 percent. I’m sure that many of the other […]

The beginning of the planned destruction of Enchanted Township, on Spencer Road near Jackman, has begun. What once was a beautiful green forest with mountains and hills in the distance is now a stripped-to-the-bare-ground corridor. White trucks, with workers from Wisconsin and other states (rarely a Maine vehicle), travel Spencer Road in clouds of dust […]

On my first night in Maine, I saw the most captivating sunset that I’ve ever seen. I could smell the wildflowers in the warm breeze as I watched the sky turn pink over the hills. The experience instantly reminded me why I work to protect wild places, especially the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Arctic […]

Re: “Southern Maine retailer gets caught up in lawsuit over smiling whale logos” (Aug. 17): Allen and Nancy Collins opened a high-end men’s clothing store in West Hartford, Connecticut, back in the 1960s. Al summered on Nantucket and there met Nan, who was a descendant of the Coffin whaling family and a Nantucket native. Their […]