Incredulous at mask-less photo I was incredulous and very disheartened to see the picture of the softball tourney which accompanied the front page article in the Monday, Feb. 22 edition of The Times Record (“Topsham winter softball tournament raises money for homeless veterans“). Viewing all those people standing together shoulder to shoulder with hardly a […]

Rush Limbaugh “encouraged doing the research … to win your argument,” writes Jonathan Crimmins (The Times Record, “Thanking Rush Limbaugh,” Feb. 19). But Mr. Crimmins neglects to cite a single quotation or a specific example of Limbaugh’s substantive work in his recent column. Instead, he offers a mix of personal anecdotes and nostalgic reflections, claiming […]

Thanks for nothing, Rush Limbaugh Being a “baby boomer,” having grown up in the ’50s and ’60s, my perspective on the current state of our society and country has never seemed so disassociated and shockingly distant from my past as it is now. I feel, at times, that I am in a completely different world […]

We are living through a pandemic contagion of the COVID-19 virus that, in the innocence of January of last year, was still to reap its rampage of millions of sick people and hundreds of thousands of deaths. Around that time then-President Trump minimized the danger of the virus and then, flying in the face of […]

Due to that pandemic-distorted sense of time most of us have been experiencing, the U.S. Senate’s vote in Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial already appears to be passing into history. That may not be a bad thing. It means the Biden presidency can begin in earnest as, under new leadership, the nation grapples with a […]