Independent candidate for governor Eliot Cutler is getting back to his strengths — and we hope he keeps it up. Cutler, who was instrumental in the crafting of the Clean Air and Clean Water acts as a staff aide to Edmund Muskie in the ’70s, is turning his campaign toward Maine’s environment, and specifically, the […]

There were several defeats for the economy in the most recent Legislative session. First and foremost, the loss of federal dollars to expand Medicaid, or MaineCare, as we call it, will have a troubling ripple effect throughout Maine’s economy. Maine’s population has an average age of 42. People of that age and older use a […]

A major report on the national climate assessment released Tuesday provides additional clear scientific evidence to match what Mainers are increasingly aware of from their daily lives: Climate change is not a far off threat, but something that is already beginning to affect our communities. It shows definitively that we must take action now to […]

To the Editor: I see that the Town of Brunswick is thinking of raising our taxes by 7 percent. From all the construction that’s been going on the last few years — the unnecessarily large new police station — an eyesore, the newly renovated Town Hall, the redesigned College Street, the speed bumps on Maine […]

To the Editor: Two men made headlines last week. One was the billionaire owner of an NBA basketball team who, during a private phone call to his long-time biracial girlfriend, asked her not to keep bringing former NBA stars and other black male friends to Clippers’ games and embarrassing him thereby. For this, he was […]

To the Editor: We’d like to thank the Department of Public Works in Bath for their work this spring to bring the pothole situation under control as fast as humanly possible. Their response has been great. This is how our tax dollars should be spent. We know it’s been a long, hard winter, but our […]