As a white mental health professional, I wanted to reiterate something: The police have no role in providing crisis mental health care. An estimated 10 percent of 911 calls are for mental health crises. Police are called on those in mental health crisis every day, not only by strangers, but also, more commonly, by their […]

In the past few months, more than $300 million in contracts have been awarded to a variety of Maine companies as planning for the construction of the New England Clean Energy Connect begins. The jobs created by these projects are so important to Maine, and the location of these jobs in western and central Maine […]

Our willingness to start over has made this the greatest social experiment in history.

Donald Fontaine (“Another View: Few legal resources exist for poor residents of Maine,” May 31, Page D2) is correct. Maine formerly had robust legal aid for the poor program in Pine Tree Legal Assistance, now a shadow of its former self. Interestingly, many of Maine’s illustrious legal minds worked there in their early years. To […]

In a letter published on May 23, Richard Aishton claims that the energy provided by Hydro-Québec is not clean. The science proves otherwise. Greenhouse-gas emissions and mercury have been extensively documented in Québec – over 40 years for mercury and 25 years for greenhouse gases – and data results published in numerous peer-reviewed scientific journals. […]

As a nurse and mother of four, I am paying special attention to candidates’ stances on health care in advance of the July primary. Never in our lifetimes has health care, and Mainers’ access to it, been such an important issue as it is right now. Voters must pay close attention to who we elect […]

South Portland, Cape Elizabeth and Scarborough (down the coast to Higgins Beach) are impacted greatly by oil tankers, the threat of tar sands and other potential poisons to our air and water quality. Eben Rose, a knowledgable, energetic candidate who thinks outside the box, would be an asset in the Maine Senate. I’ve had the […]

Here is a modest proposal for preserving the right of law-abiding citizens to protest peacefully while preventing anarchists from endangering the public and destroying our cities: Establish and enforce curfews. Cities are doing the first, but not the second. Agitators commit most of their mayhem after dark when they can’t be identified. When and where […]