The city of Saco should rethink its policy regarding private roads. Why change the policy? The major reason is that these private roads might require upgrading to current standards. The cost of the upgrade might not fall on individuals who created the roads and live along them – it would fall on Saco taxpayers. Upgrading […]

Thanks to the Portland city councilors who voted recently to require the owners of certain commercial properties to begin reporting their buildings’ energy usage. There are tools available to make the process doable, and the delay in implementation will give building owners ample opportunity to learn how the reporting systems work. Over time, benchmarking should […]

William Vaughan Jr.’s Nov. 14 Maine Voices proposal for preparing high school students for the future is asking school systems – boards of education, administrators and teachers – to use their crystal balls to determine the curriculum. It seems to me that the role of education is not to be a predictive science preparing students […]

The country continues to reel from the shocking impact of the recent presidential election, and many minority communities are experiencing a heightened sense of insecurity as a result of the discriminatory policies being proposed by the incoming administration. The threat of mass deportation weighs heavily on the minds of many immigrants throughout the country. And […]