What do you call it when a president of the United States loses a fair and legal election by over 7 million popular votes and 74 Electoral College votes, but refuses to concede the election or even acknowledge the win of his opponent for more than five weeks? Not only that, he calls for countless […]

The Dec. 6 Maine/New England dispatch “Senate OKs bill to keep plastic out of oceans” (Page B2) makes me think of two popular seafood stores on Commercial Street. Both claim to have respect for and depend upon the oceans for their livelihood. Yet, both hand out plastic bags like lollipops; you often get two or […]

This past week COVID-19 became the leading cause of death in the USA, overtaking heart attacks and cancer; and, when asked by The Washington Post, only 27 Republican U.S. House and Senate members would publicly recognize that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the election. What connects these two? The Trump Republican Party has unmoored […]

Growing up in a big city outside of Maine, I never knew how nature-deprived I was. Experiencing a great sense of serenity while being in a kayak for the first time, appreciating the rugged lake shoreline and tranquil surface of the water, seeing the night sky filled with stars while camping in the great woods […]

I taught European history at the secondary level for 40 years before retiring in 2018. Hannah Arendt, a German scholar and activist who fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s and went on to become one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, was and will always be one of my greatest inspirations. She […]

A recent letter, “NECEC will help reduce impacts of climate change in Maine” (Dec. 9), completely missed the mark. For example, the very first sentence references your Dec. 6 editorial about a recent climate report put out by the Mills administration as an example of why New England Clean Energy Connect is “needed.” This is […]

I’m a nurse, a very tired (the kind of tired that sleep cannot fix) registered nurse at Maine Medical Center. I have been on overdrive since March, and while I get paid well, I’d like people to know the sacrifices that come with being an empathetic RN during a pandemic. I’ve been the last face […]

What am I missing? I am no legal scholar, but I found it interesting that Phippsburg Select Board memhers Chris Mixon and Julia House believe they don’t have the authority to enforce a mask mandate in public buildings, but they do believe they have the power to override Gov. Mills and the state judiciary. There […]