Most of us remember the great Kevin Costner movie, “ Field of Dreams,” about an Iowa farmer’s passion to meet Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other seven banned Chicago Black Sox players from the 1919 World Series. He builds the baseball diamond in his farm’s cornfields and, sure enough, Shoeless Joe and his disgraced teammates […]

There is a national trend that is making people sick, and Maine is along for the ride. The trend is to forgo vaccinations for what should be preventable childhood diseases, and it is something that ought to stop. Children are getting needlessly exposed to viruses that could kill them or cause lifelong health problems. Parents […]

In the midst of its busiest season, the financially troubled U.S. Postal Service has decided to delay changes that would have been tantamount to suicide. That is good news for consumers and for businesses that would have been slammed by plans to end next-day delivery of first-class mail and put the brakes on other services […]

To the editor: I have written a letter similar to this one a few years in a row, and nothing has changed from the first time I recall writing about Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) or becoming a member. It’s times like this that make you sit back and wonder why the state of Maine […]

To the editor: Bread for the World is a faith-based organization that advocates with the U.S. Congress to get legislation passed that we hope and pray will one day lead to an end to hunger and poverty in the world. We do this primarily by conducting letter-writing campaigns in our supporting churches. Here in Maine, […]