Re: “M.D. Harmon: No sound basis for concluding 2014 was ‘warmest year on record’ “ (Jan. 30): Mr. Harmon’s latest attempt to dismiss global climate change reminded me of a conversation I had last summer with someone who insisted the Earth is 4,000 years old. He was pleasant enough, but really, what’s the point? Mr. […]

Re: “Hezbollah missiles kill two, escalate clashes” (Jan. 29): Noam Chomsky says that Shias are the majority of Lebanon’s population, such that, if free elections were held and if Shias threw all their support to Hezbollah, it could form the government entirely on its own. Yet Article 24 of the Lebanese Constitution reserves half of […]

David Dilley of Global Weather Oscillations takes issue with National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA findings on climate change (“Letter to the editor: Climate-warming statistics often intentionally deceive,” Jan. 28). To buttress his point of view that we have nothing to fear from global warming, Mr. Dilley cites weather patterns from thousands of years […]

I am writing this letter to all those companies that want customers to pay their bills online. If, however, there are those of us who prefer to pay by check, it takes you at least an hour of your time to straighten out a mistake. It is almost impossible to get a representative to help […]

The first time I heard about a Labrador retriever as the Maine state dog, I envisioned issues (“Labrador retriever could fetch a state honor,” Feb. 2). Most of us dog lovers think that our dog would be the best to represent Maine. This stimulated my thinking. Let’s declare our state dog to be the shelter […]