The University of Maine System’s recent decision to close university campuses to students and transition to remote learning for the remainder of the semester was premature and irresponsible, and will have a massive cascading impact on the local economy. The impact of students going home and staying home is going to be like a financial […]

Beware the gift horse! The president has put forward the idea of waiving payroll taxes to boost the economy. Is there more to the idea than boosting the economy in response to the COVID-19 virus? Cutting payroll taxes affects two general areas. If by payroll taxes he means that the income taxes we all pay […]

I wish to comment on the Feb. 21 article about the complaint made to the Attorney General’s Office over the decision to replace the Portland Museum of Art Biennial, starting next year, with an international triennial open to Nordic and other artists. This was not William Thon’s intent. As a highly regarded Maine artist, William […]

In spite of receiving emails from Bowdoin College telling them not to return to the college after returning from Italy, but to go directly to their homes, two of the six students who had been studying in Italy apparently returned to the Bowdoin campus last week, with one spending 24 hours on campus March 5 […]

The Maine Legislature is currently negotiating a $127 million supplemental budget. In early February, Gov. Mills submitted her proposal, which included $20 million for the Budget Stabilization Fund, better known as the “Rainy Day Fund.” At the time, the allocation was very reasonable. Much has changed in the past five weeks. The economic outlook on […]

The folks who are set against all abortion don’t know it all about the people who have had to have them. I believe in life, but the life of the mother, who has other children, comes first. My best friend had five children. When she found out that number six was on the way, the […]

As a family physician, I have cared for many children who have benefited from free school lunches. Feeding children is essential to their being able to learn to the fullest of their abilities. They are our future. There is little evidence of widespread abuse of free school lunches. A pending Trump administration rule change could […]

Thank you, Hartford Courant columnist and professor Gina Barreca, for spelling out the true meaning of class (March 7)! In today’s world of crazy, mixed-up values, we seemed to have lost the true meaning of this word. Class distinction comes only to those who carry it in their pocket, as Lord Chesterfield once said about […]