Tim Rider doesn’t understand why anyone would oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2015 Clean Water Rule. That’s because the objections aren’t as simple as he makes them out to be (“Maine Voices: Clean Water Rule will help sustain fishermen’s livelihoods,” April 16). The rule gives the EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers greatly expanded […]

I would like to introduce Gov. Le-Page to a Mainer from India. She’s 8 years old. She loves riding her bike. She’s brilliant at math and gobbles up books like they’re candy. (She gobbles up candy like it’s candy, too.) When she was 1, I carried her out of her orphanage. She leaned trustingly into […]

Meredith Goad’s April 20 article on the making of birch syrup forgot to mention one small caveat. While the main sugar found in the syrup, xylitol, helps prevent tooth decay, it should not be fed to our canine friends, as it causes a dramatic release of insulin from the pancreas, resulting in profound hypoglycemia and […]

The people of Cape Elizabeth are being asked to approve $1.4 million to make garbage disposal even less convenient and less energy-efficient than it is now. Instead of curbside pickup, which would reduce the greenhouse gases produced by thousands of individual households driving their garbage to the transfer station, the town wants us all to […]

In her April 16 Maine Voices op-ed, Maye Emelin, education program manager at Sexual Assault Response Services of Southern Maine, offered several suggestions on “how we can all create safer communities by preventing violence in the first place.” She suggests that “we do this by becoming active bystanders.” Who better exemplifies the role of “active […]