Consider these facts. Three major corporations from Texas and Florida fund a political action committee in Maine. They call themselves “Mainers for Local Power.” This month (according to their 11-Day Pre-General Election Report), that PAC writes a single $570,000 check to Washington, D.C., political operatives. The payment is for the collection of petition signatures from […]

I wrote this letter on Halloween. How appropriate, because there is a “man in black” at the back of the hearing room whenever a Nordic Aquafarms permit application is under discussion. That man is a justice on the Waldo County Superior Court. He – not the state Board of Environmental Protection – will decide Nordic’s […]

Generous neighbors sustained my widowed grandmother and her four children during the 1930s in a coastal village in Maine. They’d leave a bag of potatoes or a large package of venison on the front stoop. My grandmother had summer employment cooking for wealthy summer people, but the winters were difficult. Today 13.6 percent of Maine […]

Re: “It’s almost here – a banner day for the USA” (Nov. 1): After reading Bill Nemitz’s column this morning, I was very disappointed to learn that he raises the American flag only on holidays! Being an extremely proud American, and a veteran from the Vietnam War, I raise “my” flag every morning and retrieve […]

Re: “It’s almost here – a banner day for the USA” (Nov. 1): Every Sunday, after breakfast and having taken in the Maine Sunday Telegram from beginning to end, my husband and I save Bill Nemitz’s column for last, knowing that his words, serious or with humor, will tilt our world back to sanity. Today […]

We have had a low COVID infection rate in Maine, not because we are lucky or blessed, but because we really, really did a good job of preventing spread by the two simplest things – wearing a mask and using sanitizer and soap – and then, the hard thing – staying away from others. I’m […]

A segment of a recent PBS program revealed a troubling side effect of the current pandemic. When American beef processing plants were closed, importers turned to Central America to take up the slack. Nicaraguan cattle ranchers, among others, were emboldened to expand their operations, edging further into forested areas which provide a sanctuary for indigenous […]

Listen to your mother! What good, old-fashioned advice. I have said, several times in my life, that the most important people in my life are women. First, my dear mother, who is now in Heaven, and then the Lithuanian nuns in parochial schools, in the small coal-mining town of Girardville, Pennsylvania, (from 1941-49) and the […]