With the pandemic making it clear that our country has no comprehensive public health system, it is time for a change. Lisa Savage, Green Independent candidate for the U.S. Senate, is on the November ballot. She supports a Medicare For All health care system that will work for everyone and stop driving sick people into […]

In response to Barbara P. Hall’s July 28 letter (“Keep pets off East End Beach in the summer”): How mean-spirited she is! Pets are allowed only before 9 a.m. and after 5 p.m. in the summer at the East End Beach (and many others). Dogs are not the ones who leave candy wrappers, food remains, […]

In 1953, Republican President Dwight D. Eisenhower added the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to his Cabinet. In 1970, Republican President Richard M. Nixon created the Environmental Protection Agency. These signal bipartisan achievements of 20th-century American democracy reinforced this country’s bedrock principles of “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” In the 21st century, […]

Re: “Letter to the editor: Keep pets off East End Beach in the summer” (July 28): I am a dog owner and do pick up after my pup. He enjoys the beach on off hours so the humans have their time. I see more trash left on that beach by humans: cigarette butts, food wrappers, […]

Bath Iron Works, which is owned by General Dynamics, has an ongoing machinists union strike. General Dynamics is a very wealthy company. Thus far no agreement has been reached while the strike enters its sixth week. The COVID-19 problem creates one dilemma. General Dynamics not wanting to fairly resolve this strike creates a greater problem […]

I am writing because my family lives very close to the Global Partners tanks. My family moved to South Portland 13 years ago and we have experienced many severe health problems since we have lived here. I have been complaining for years about the disgusting odors and requested the company call me, but they never […]

I grew up with Jewish neighbors who survived Hitler’s 1930s Germany, and I was raised by a stepfather who was just some kid from Massachusetts who joined the Army and then experienced the horrors of fascism in Europe, including liberating an extermination camp. A good Argentinian friend of mine, when she was a young teen, […]

I was both surprised and dismayed by former Green Independent state Rep. John Eder’s letter of July 24 (“Maine legislators must seek end to onerous COVID rules”). It was not an assessment I would have expected from a Green Independent office holder on the state’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Citing a low percentage of […]