Letter writer Ted Sirois of Saco (“Obama flouts Constitution much like Andrew Jackson,” May 11) worries that President Obama is violating the Constitution on a grander scale than President Andrew Jackson. There are many reliable sources noting that Jackson was an inflexible racist who was determined to remove Native Americans and to ensure the continuation […]
May 2014
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: University of Maine System should mine rich supply of older folks
Regarding your May 20 front-page report on University of Maine System trustees approving a round of cuts (“UMaine System trustees OK round one of cutbacks”): Before I made a permanent move to Maine last year, when I earned a doctorate at age 74 in another state, a leading scholar working with AARP patronizingly called me […]
advertisement
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: U.S. ‘correctional’ system hardly deserves the name
To use the term “correctional” to describe our penal system is truly an oxymoron. The majority of prisoners’ criminal behavior is anything but “corrected” upon release. Bureau of Justice Statistics studies have found high rates of recidivism among released prisoners. One study, “Recidivism of Prisoners Released in 1994,” tracked 272,111 prisoners in 15 states after […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Taxing property to support public services makes perfect sense
I must respond to the latest letter from William Vaughan Jr. (“Taxes in proportion to home value don’t make sense,” May 19). Mr. Vaughan argues that people should pay only for the services they use rather than be taxed based on their property’s value. This makes sense only if you want to live in a […]
Posted inOpinion
Maine Voices: Metro Diaries: Five things I learned about the bus, the city and myself
The author made the leap to public transportation after he and his wife downsized to a single car.
Posted inTimes Record
Characters of Nightlife
HARPSWELL C apturing a scene at once exotic and volatile, it’s hard to identify the point at which Harpswell artist Chris Coles’s paintings of the Bangkok nightlife veer from reality to expressionism. With red, yellow or orange eyes shining out from green, red or blue skin, Coles’s subjects are club owners, sex workers, expatriates, tourists, […]
Posted inTimes Record
Many ways to show honor
BRUNSWICK Memorial Day remembrances of those who sacrificed for their community and country will begin this weekend in Brunswick. Gov. Paul LePage is scheduled to speak at the Fallen Warrior Ceremony at 1 p.m. Saturday at the P-3 Park located on the Southwest corner of Pegasus Street and Admiral Fitch Avenue, at Brunswick Landing. The […]
Posted inTimes Record
Sartoris resigns
BRUNSWICK Jackie Sartoris announced her resignation, effective immediately, from the Brunswick Sewer District Board Thursday, after questions were raised about a possible conflict of interest concerning her service. Sartoris’s husband, Steve Walker, was elected to the Brunswick Town Council in November 2013. Although the sewer district is quasigovernmental and does not answer to the council, […]
Posted inTimes Record
Maine Maritime Museum kicks off summer season
BATH Threatening clouds remained a safe distance Thursday night so staff and guests who gathered at Maine Maritime Museum could kickoff the museum’s summer season without getting wet. The event featured the raising of the flags on the six evocation masts of the Wyoming ship sculpture. “It’s fair to say we’ve been waiting for more […]
