Much has been written in the Portland Press Herald about the New England Clean Energy Connect. Sadly, considerably more attention has been devoted to project impacts than to why this project is needed. I invite the public to consider that our planet Earth has a surprisingly thin atmospheric layer that controls climate and protects us […]

As I have gotten older, it seems as though I have lost touch with most of the popular music. I rarely listen to the radio, unless it is NPR or a Red Sox broadcast. However, I have always loved the awards shows, and so I tuned in to watch the Grammy Awards on Sunday night […]

It’s true there are little data to support the vehicle inspection law (Our View, March 23). The problem with that argument is the success of the program cannot be measured. The pedestrian spotted in the crosswalk because headlights and wiper blades were replaced. The tie rod that did not snap, sending a driver into a […]

As our southern border is seeing a 21-year high in crossings, it is frustrating, as a citizen, to find any explanation for this. Why are thousands of people flooding into America during a global pandemic? COVID-19-positive immigrants are arriving, thus putting more strain and risk to health care professionals. Unaccompanied children are being housed in […]

“Kiss the Ground” is a 2020 documentary describing how “regenerative agriculture” puts carbon (lots of carbon) back into the ground while restoring soils to good health. Globally, the carbon cycle is broken and nature’s balancing processes cannot keep up (see “The past, present and future of climate change,” The Economist, Sept. 21, 2019). We all […]

As a frequent rider of Metro’s No. 8 bus, in the West End, I have found it to be very useful in both grocery shopping and in getting to work on the Eastern Waterfront. This is because I am currently only a block from two quite conveniently located stops. However, a new route proposal would […]

Regarding a recent letter to the editor, “MMC union will disrupt integrity of nursing there” (March 20, Page A8), we wonder whether the writer would use the same argument when discussing master-slave or industrialist-factory worker relationships. Heaven forbid that the union would “unravel the bonds of congeniality” by addressing unhealthy nurse-patient staffing ratios or providing […]

Massachusetts’ demand for 1,200 megawatts of electrical generation to fill the “energy gap” left by the closure of  two New England nuclear plants can be met with delocalized but interconnected microgrids, each with a capacity for sustainable electrical generation and salt water battery storage that can feed the grid and buffer fluctuations of demand. This […]