I was thrilled to see the front page of the Maine Sunday Telegram last week with Colin Woodard’s first installment of Maine’s history (“Dawnland: Maine’s march toward statehood began much earlier than you might have thought,” Feb. 16). His knowledge and expression of history are a joy to read. Having just read Annie Proulx’s novel […]

Re: “Mainer discovers downside to viral post about ring lost 6,000 miles away” (Jan. 23): I attended the Northfield Mount Hermon School in Massachusetts for my last two years of high school. It was also my father’s alma mater. He graduated in 1946. There was no money for a class ring when I graduated, so […]

Fracked gas. That was the topic of the first green group meeting I attended in North Carolina since I relocated from Maine. Gas companies are looking to build new pipelines to burn even more fracked gas here in North Carolina and nearby states. Fracked gas from Pennsylvania is the enemy here among green groups because […]

Although Pete Buttigieg and Bernie Sanders supporters will disagree with me, the most significant numbers to come out of Iowa and the New Hampshire primary are not the names of the “winners” but the combined scores of the progressives (Sanders and Elizabeth Warren) and the moderates (Buttigieg, Joe Biden and Amy Klobuchar). Viewed under that […]

So now we learn that the upgrades to four Portland elementary schools not only require significant scaling back but also, even then, require an additional $21 million to complete. Supposedly construction cost increases were factored into the $64 million bond issue brought to and approved by voters in 2017. Looks like that dart missed the […]

The good news is that Maine is a Super Tuesday primary state and Democratic votes will really matter this year. The bad news for Democrats is that we are all chasing our tails on the “electability” issue. Let’s stop trying to game how others will vote. On primary day, we’re meant to vote for the […]

Elizabeth Warren is the candidate who can stand up to Donald Trump and hold him accountable to the American people. She is the one we need to take on Trump this November. In a courageous debate performance, Warren stood right next to billionaire Mike Bloomberg – three-time mayor of New York City and world’s ninth […]

As one of the hundreds of people from western Maine who collected the more than 75,000 signatures to put the Central Maine Power corridor to a vote on November’s ballot, I was disgusted and dismayed at CMP’s brazen statements that it plans to move forward with the project regardless of what Maine voters have to […]