Vital revisions are needed to Maine’s existing wind law. Fortunately, our state funded an independent review that lists 25 recommendations for how wind power could play a more positive role in our state’s economic development. Unfortunately, industry lobbyists don’t like these ideas. I encourage Maine voters to re-evaluate industrial wind power development and to contact […]

Admittedly, the school facilities in Kennebunk, Kennebunkport and Arundel are dated and require major TLC. But is every homeowner in Kennebunk prepared for a 9.3 percent tax increase if the school bond passes Jan. 21? And according to the letter we received from the town, these estimates are before “other possible increases … not considered […]

Re: “Researchers concerned by virus that killed well-known Maine artist” (Dec. 25): The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention publication Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report (Sept. 7, 2001, Vol. 50, No. 35; pages 761-764) documents the first identification of the Powassan virus in Maine, in September 2000. The diligence of what was then the […]

Re: Mary-Jane Ferrier’s letter to the editor, “Oil interests have no place on tar sands study group” (Dec. 26): As someone with no interests in the oil industry, but as a taxpayer in South Portland, I have noticed two letters of late saying that the oil interests should be excluded from the proposed ordinance group. […]