Now that commencement is over, the hand-wringing begins about how to pay for the running of Maine’s public universities again. The UMaine System is a group of eight universities located in Orono, Portland, Augusta, Presque Isle, Machias, Farmington and Fort Kent, and the School of Law, co-located on the University of Southern Maine campus in […]

Much of the world is switching to solar power. Global solar photovoltaic (PV) capacity will more than triple by 2020. There are multiple reasons. First, post- Fukushima, the market share of nuclear power is shrinking. In Western Europe, for example, renewable energy is steadily displacing nuclear power. To meet carbon emissions targets and reduce fossil […]

A century ago, Europe tore itself apart in what was, for a time, known as the Great War — four years of death and destruction on an unprecedented scale. Later, of course, the conflict was renamed World War I — because a quarter-century later Europe did it all over again. But that was a long […]

Editor’s Note: Due to an editing error, this letter was not printed in its entirety in the Friday, May 23, edition of The Times Record. We are re-running the letter as the writer intended it to be viewed. Your editorial of May 20, 2014, has some severe inacurate assumptions and statements. As for bear traps, […]