After publicly supporting Sen. Susan Collins six years ago in her most-successful re-election campaign, the Maine Council of Machinists, which includes two unions at Bath Iron Works, has recently abandoned their electoral support of Maine’s senior senator in favor of a newcomer. Those who follow Washington politics know that political muscle in Congress, especially in […]

Orlando E. Delogu, in his Maine Voices (“BIW workers are pushed to settle, but no one’s making demands of General Dynamics,” Aug. 4), fails to mention the onerous work rules insisted upon by the unions. Of course Ingalls in Mississippi is a less expensive place to build ships for the Navy. At Bath Iron Works […]

Ranked-choice voting is a great way to vote. The California town of Oakhurst developed an even better approach. Candidates for mayor campaign by raising funds for local nonprofits, and each dollar raised counts as one vote. The candidate who raises the most wins the election. This may seem like a frivolous idea during these somber […]

Are you sick and tired of seeing both Sara Gideon and Susan Collins on TV over and over again? Something needs to be done to limit the contributions given by large corporations and donors. We have three more months of this rhetoric. I don’t know about you, but I have seen enough of this. Let’s […]

I am appalled by the false history peddled by Portland Health and Human Services Director Kristen Dow in her Aug. 6 op-ed regarding the India Street Public Health Center. She wrote that the clinic “has never been in danger of fully closing.” This is completely false. In 2016 City Manager Jon Jennings proposed closing the […]

As someone who’s served with Speaker Sara Gideon in the Maine Legislature for years, I take issue with Gideon’s recent ads, including one published in every major newspaper (Portland Press Herald, July 15, Page A3) that makes the case that she is somehow bipartisan. In this ad, Gideon claims that she “has shown that she […]

After COVID hit, toilet paper and many groceries became scarce. Thanks in part to Maine farmers, our stores’ shelves have been replenished and local fruits and vegetables have burst into produce aisles, road-side stands and farmers markets. While the pandemic has tested the mettle of farmers, climate change may soon bring them to a breaking […]