In response to Carol Schiller and Sally Trice, who asked us in a Jan. 11 letter to the editor to join forces to build a Portland Senior Center: We are certainly on board. This would be a wonderful addition to our community. However, as elders ourselves, we propose that, rather than building a center only […]

Re: “Scofflaws owe $824,000 in unpaid turnpike tolls” (Jan. 5, Page A1): If the turnpike wants to be sure of collecting tolls, then stop the E-ZPass and go back to making all people stop and pay their tolls in cash. Problem solved until cars and trucks are backed up for several miles, then people will […]

There seems to be a recurring myth about New England Clean Energy Connect, and I am trying to purge this myth from the record.  Electrical power from Hydro-Quebec is not clean. “Politicians who describe dams as ‘clean energy projects’ are talking ‘nonsense’ and rejecting decades of science, says David Schindler, a leading water ecologist,” The […]

It is with a heavy heart I write to you and your readers regarding art critic Daniel Kany’s move abroad. He will be sorely missed. Who else out there writes about Maine’s artists and institutions with a photographic eye and a deep knowledge of art history? Who out there will write with honesty and passionate […]

Another front in the war to demonize Canadian hydropower has begun. A Jan. 12 Maine Sunday Telegram article attempts to link an increase of mercury in the food source of Canada’s Inuit population to their hydro dams. If true, how do you explain Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries & Wildlife warnings against eating fish caught […]

I was pleased with the article published in the Jan. 12 edition of this paper on Susan Collins’ voting record on judicial nominees: “Collins’ record consistent on judicial confirmations” (Page A1). It showed she is beholden to no one and votes on federal judges just as she does on all issues brought to the Senate […]

Despite being a longtime supporter of ranked-choice voting, I had some sympathy for Joe Mackey’s Jan. 1 Maine Voices op-ed advocating open primaries as a superior electoral reform. However, I can see no justification for changing over from one reform technique to another at this time. As an unenrolled (i.e., independent) voter, I share many […]

Over the last 50 years I’ve seen workers’ payroll rights eroded by “business-friendly” legislation. Overtime pay was awarded by law to hourly and salary non-exempt workers. In the 1970s, more than 60 percent of salaried workers qualified for overtime pay. In 2019, just 7 percent of salaried workers qualified. In fact, American workers are more […]