As a person who has very recently relocated to the Portland area, I must say how wonderful a city and state you have. It is so normal here in comparison to many other parts of the country. But the impression one gathers from driving past downtown Portland is the absolutely god-awful, Stalinesque architecture your eyes […]

Re: “Our View: House speaker’s focus on jobs the right priority” (Dec. 29): Thanks for highlighting House Speaker Mark Eves’ initiative in targeting Maine’s lagging economy as the No. 1 priority for the next legislative session. It feels as though the administration of Gov. LePage has no coherent strategy for growing the Maine economy. He […]

I would like to know what information former state Rep. Andrea Boland has that backs up her skepticism about the vaccination of children (“Maine bill seeks to halt surge in vaccine avoidance,” Dec. 30). R.E. Marsh Sanford

On Monday, I went to Portland City Hall to return the license plates of my daughter’s car. She has recently moved from Maine to Maryland, and she was told that her Maine license plates should be given back. After I returned the plates to a woman working in City Hall, she completed a form and […]

The necessary national dialogue on torture too often has been reduced to the question of how effective torture has been in extracting useful, “actionable” information that might help in defense against terrorist attacks. It is absolutely the wrong question to ask in a society that lays claim to the slightest adherence to moral principles. “Does […]