I can still remember my first night at the Oxford Street Shelter. I didn’t realize it at the time, but I would be spending the next 15 months homeless in Portland, sleeping at Oxford Street and Florence House, and camping out in the woods. There were times when so many people were staying at the […]

I’m grateful to have been invited to Gov. LePage’s inauguration. Having said that, I had expected the colors to be posted on the stage at the very start, rather being marched in during the middle of the ceremonies and immediately marched from the hall before the actual swearing-in. As a retired Coast Guard officer, I […]

At the end of Bill Nemitz’s Jan. 4 column, “Maine jails part empty of inmates or part full?,” he notes the recent increase of adults incarcerated in Maine. And he rues the fact that taxpayers are reluctant to spend public funds on rehabilitation of people while they are in jail. There is a nonprofit organization […]

Regarding the Jan. 3 article about the lawsuit by a white cab driver over the awarding of all the Jetport cab licenses to Somalis and Iranians (“White cabbie files bias against Portland over permits”): Imagine if this situation were reversed. Your paper would have made this front-page news. Where’s the outrage? Where are the demonstrations […]