As the owner of an aluminum-sided, plastic-windowed three-family home located on Munjoy Hill, I can’t wait to get my historic district plaque to adhere to the front of my building. It should look fantastic beneath my basic Home Depot outside light. Susan Gillis Cape Elizabeth

In 2016 I was a Maine delegate for Bernie Sanders. Four years later, I crossed the aisle and voted for Susan Collins in her bid to win re-election against Sara Gideon. Sen. Collins took flack throughout President Donald Trump’s time in office from Maine Democrats. But her record is more nuanced, which she demonstrated when […]

Two candidates for the Yarmouth Town Council have been exceptional public servants and warrant your vote in June: Heather Abbott, who is running for re-election, and David Craig, who, if elected, will be returning to the council after previously serving two terms. Both are long-time Yarmouth residents who share a deep commitment to the town, […]

A child’s home should be where they feel safest. But unfortunately, for far too many, that is not the case. An unfortunate consequence of the COVID shutdowns, and remote learning, is that children who have unstable homes have spent the last year in constant turmoil, deprived of adequate contact with their peers, teachers and other […]

I began my career in public education in 1972. For two decades, as a teacher and principal, I was able to prioritize the importance of growing compassionate school citizens. Institutional compassion permeated the teaching of literature, social studies and writing. In the 1990’s our nation’s educational priorities shifted and by early 2000, “No Child Left […]

Thank you for your editorial (Our View: Rise in reckless driving another consequence of COVID, April 9, 2021) highlighting the dangers on Maine roads over this past pandemic year. The Bicycle Coalition of Maine’s new Initiative, “SlowMEDown,” offers statistics and information that indicate the issue is hardly new to Maine. A 2020 automobile analysis ranked […]

The hypocrisy and the sheer chutzpah of the Left, and especially its press, can be absolutely breathtaking at times. Four years ago, the focus was on President Trump’s tax reforms that lowered the top tax rates that wealthy Americans paid. Nothing was said, and the fact was ignored, that those wealthy Americans would actually see […]

Republicans in Congress who think that infrastructure should be limited to roads and bridges should read up on the Works Progress Administration. According to Wikipedia, Federal Project One of the WPA at one point employed 40,000 artists, musicians, writers, actors and historians. “The WPA’s Division of Investigation proved so effective in preventing political corruption ‘that […]