I recently returned from visiting a friend in the Berkshires of western Massachusetts. While I was there, I overheard the following phone call my friend made to the Police Department. “Hello, my name is Mrs. Griffin and I live on Lilac Lane. As I’m sure you know, this is a small street and drivers often […]

Thank you to the Portland City Council for making the lives of folks who live on the peninsula just a tad more uncomfortable and difficult, especially during the coming winter months. In the council’s wisdom, it has passed R6 zone changes that will increase density in the most dense part of the city; removed on-site […]

Your second editorial in two months on unpaid fines (“Our View: Jail is the wrong way to make offenders pay fines,” June 8) perpetuates the fiction that people are jailed because they are too poor to pay fines. This is not true. Here are the facts: No one is incarcerated because they cannot pay a […]