Is Bakken sweet crude more volatile than typical crude oil? If so, do additional precautions need to be taken in transporting Bakken crude from well head to refinery? The questions need answering. Certainly, no one wants to be responsible for a derailment, explosion and fireball like the one in July in Lac Megantic, Quebec, in […]

To the Editor: I am writing in support of Gary Anderson’s column “Power poles are so 19th century” ( Dec. 10, Page A6), and would like to expand on his point that power poles and lines are an aesthetic disaster. People travel to Maine from all over the world for its rural and coastal beauty […]

A recent news story reported that Maine Community Health Options, a fledgling nonprofit insurance cooperative, was besting giant for-profit insurer Anthem by three to one in the individual insurance market as Mainers begin signing up for policies on the Affordable Care Act insurance exchange. The story said the reasons were “unknown.” To the contrary: We […]