Just a comment or two about M.D. Harmon’s slanted Feb. 20 column, “Unlike judge at Obama’s speech, we can’t sleep through what’s coming in Mideast.” As Harmon flaunts his allegiance to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin “Bibi” Netanyahu, the most dangerous threat to peace is not a nuclear-armed Iran but the man who Harmon thinks is […]

Thanks to Mary C. Mayhew, Maine’s health and human services commissioner, for her recent commentary in your paper on General Assistance in Portland, Lewiston-Auburn and Bangor: “Mary Mayhew: Portland’s General Assistance spending is out of whack” (Feb. 21). As longtime Portland taxpayers, we feel that growing welfare rolls are out of control and that our […]

I am appreciative of your recent article and its attempt to fairly portray Greg Nisbet (“Embattled Portland landlord seen as trusting, flexible with tenants,” Feb. 19). He represented me as a real estate broker when I bought my house 13 years ago and again to sell it early this fall. The listing was taken down, […]

On Feb. 9, my husband and two young sons were in a car accident on the Maine Turnpike, heading south just before the Portland Jetport exit. My husband hit a patch of ice, causing him to go off the road and flipping the car on its side. Our two sons, ages 4 and 5, were […]

As a private citizen, I plan to attend Wednesday’s public hearing at the State House in Augusta of the Joint Legislative Committee on Environment and Natural Resources as it considers a mining rules bill for open-pit metallic mineral mining in Maine (L.D. 146). These mining rules would allow uncontrollable and continuous groundwater contamination from acid […]