We acknowledge we are writing from land of the Wabanaki people. In the aftermath of two racial incidents in our town, people have asked, “Is there racism in Yarmouth?” Members of the Black Student Alliance at Yarmouth High School have expressed dismay that little has been said and done to address these incidents. We believe […]

Gov. Mills’ announcement that Maine will adopt a vaccination policy based solely on age fails to factor in the health consequences of life in the pandemic for those of us Mainers with underlying conditions – consequences that have nothing and everything to do with coronavirus. My risk for dying of coronavirus is statistically better than […]

More than three dozen leaders of Maine’s Republican Party signed a letter chastising Sen. Susan Collins for voting to convict former President Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial. This fact alone says so much about the current state of the party itself. Apparently, to vote one’s conscience is not acceptable in these days of […]

I am a retired South Portland teacher. Having taught at James Otis Kaler School I experienced firsthand the fumes coming from the oil tanks. The tanks are in close proximity to the school and next to the playgrounds, bordering them on two sides. At the time (a period of seven years), I didn’t really think […]

Did you ever see this bumper sticker “Live Simply so others may Simply Live?” These words were proudly pasted on my first car. Thirty years later, my car doesn’t sport that sticker because I am not living simply. If I am being honest, my 19-year-old white-girl self wasn’t either. White people don’t often talk about […]

As I watched the Feb. 21 60 Minutes piece on Syria and President Assad, I was really choked up. He has tortured and murdered millions of his people, mostly innocent children, with illegal barrel bombs. Assad has ordered the eyes cut from living prisoners, a boy taken from a bus because he had an anti-government […]

Democrats should include federal funding for cultured-meat research in their coronavirus-relief bill. For readers who aren’t aware, cultured meat is grown from cells, without slaughter. Since animals are removed from the process, the risk of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 making the jump to humans is eliminated. Our current food system — which relies on huge […]

The column by David Flanagan, Central Maine Power’s chairman, that recently ran in your paper (“CMP is on the team for Maine’s renewable-energy future,” Feb. 23) was truly something else. My first thought, when reading it, was “Dear God. They can’t manage the grid they have now, yet they want to cut our state in […]