When I read the Oct. 13 news story titled “Chewonki accused of stifling conversations about race, sexuality,” about the letter written by both current and former Chewonki staff, I felt validated. I too shared similar experiences with Chewonki around race but thought it was an anomaly. Clearly, it wasn’t. I’m a middle school teacher for […]

Once we had truly great Maine Republican senators. The last one was William Cohen. Later he became secretary of defense under a Democratic president. He was called a moderate. What is Sen. Cohen’s reaction to the news coming out of Washington? Donald Trump’s lies, coverups, withholding of military funding to extort an ally into helping […]

I read with interest Doni Tamblyn’s “Maine Voices: How does the Canadian health system work? Very well” (Nov. 3), with every word of which I totally agree. Including this sentence: “When many Americans hear the words ‘socialized medicine,’ they visualize Soviet-like, cinder block medical buildings with scarce staff and water dripping from the ceilings.” I […]

Dine Out Maine reviewer Andrew Ross praises the Portland restaurant Central Provisions and awards it a four-star rating (Nov. 3). Diners often pay huge sums to wait in line for its delicacies, among them caviar and foie gras. For that, they pay from $10 to $190. Foie gras is produced by forcing corn down the […]

I moved to the Portland area at 18 from my small Maine city of Bath to pursue my college degree, excited and hopeful that I would fall in love with the Forest City. And, fall in love I did, with Portland’s rich arts and deep sense of local community. I still wouldn’t leave for the […]

I am frustrated with the partisan attacks in both directions over the impeachment investigations. I’m a moderate Democrat who doesn’t want to pursue impeachment but is concerned about the abuses of the president’s office we have seen in the past few years. Impeachment is a last resort, an effort to pursue only when the integrity […]

President Trump is selling us out. He’s made enemies with most of our former allies. His trade war with China has caused us to lose thousands of jobs, not to mention the recent bankruptcy of so many of our small farm families, who relied on China’s business to keep them solvent. And he doesn’t hide […]

U.S. Sen. Susan Collins and Maine House Speaker Sara Gideon are both accused, and accusing each other, of receiving big money from their own political action committees, aka corporations/Wall Street/foreign entities/governments, who are disguised as U.S. corporations (e.g., Central Maine Power). The mudslinging has begun and this is all we will hear about until November […]