As a person diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder, I am concerned with all efforts to protect air quality. I am grateful to live in South Portland because the citizens and the city have repeatedly and proactively taken action to protect the health and safety of all members of our community. The most recent focus […]

I am a Democrat who has voted for Sen. Susan Collins in the past, although in this last cycle I canvassed and voted for her opponent. Still, I give her credit for voting her conscience in the most recent impeachment trial. It’s discouraging to see the Maine Republican Party jump on the censure bandwagon with […]

Home is the place where memory and mortar meet. Where our personal history is written and, in Maine’s old buildings, where history is made personal. How lucky are we to be surrounded by so many places where we can reach out our hands and literally touch the past, feel the passion and toil of the […]

It’s just plain hypocritical for the Republican Party of the state of Maine to indicate that, as a party, they are planning to censure Sen. Susan Collins. Really? Just a few short months ago, the party wholeheartedly supported Collins in a senatorial race against Sara Gideon. So the Maine Republican Party of Maine is casting […]

Kudos for the excellent article “Search for sovereignty” that fronted Tuesday’s paper. Staff Writer Colin Woodard’s Feb. 16 story balances Penobscot elder Donna Loring’s impressive professional life with important facts about Maine’s fraught relationship with the Indigenous people of our land. I urge our Legislature to take affirmative action on the recommendations of the Task […]

As a former naval officer and retired physician I am stunned and bewildered in the face of the national inefficiency and frank chaos around the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. The chronically erratic, illogical and utterly dysfunctional delays and inconsistencies in vaccine delivery and associated communication to patients and the public at large defies analysis and […]

They say that this time it’s different, that although Donald Trump was acquitted, the love affair is over. I hope that’s true. After watching the brilliant case presented by the House managers, and seeing the results, I almost cried. That Republican senators gave a standing ovation to Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman, then voted for […]

The fact that Donald Trump is guilty of inciting a riot and the resultant desecration of our nation’s Capitol is obvious to anyone but the blindest of jurors. Sadly, it was a foregone conclusion that Senate Republicans lacked the courage to convict. They are fearful of many things, most of which is the mob coming […]