When I think about Christmas, I see a picture I have someplace of myself when I was about 8. I am wearing a felt poodle skirt, a pink sweater, white bobby socks and saddle shoes. My skin, my hair, my smile, the gift in my hands, wrapped in paper that has been decorated by hand […]

Grandfathering existing solar system customers for only 15 years (as the Maine Public Utilities Commission has proposed) is like having the rug pulled out from under your feet (like Lucy in the “Peanuts” cartoon strip). Any sensible new regulation always grandfathers most existing conditions. And why would anyone have an incentive to install solar if […]

I find it fascinating to note that Donald Trump is concerned over possible Muslim terrorists entering our country but silent on such matters as Dylann Roof and other Americans who shoot and murder other Americans. Apparently it’s OK with him to have Americans killing other Americans, but not OK when Muslim immigrants are fleeing their […]

Charles Todorich’s recent Maine Voices column (Dec. 8) was mostly piling on and gloating – a wordy equivalent of yelling “Nyah, nyah, we won, you lost!” Dredging up various past charges against Hillary Clinton is in this category. So is rehashing election nght. Equating the mistakes of Tojo and the Japanese leadership after Pearl Harbor […]

I’ve tried to keep quiet about the anti-Trump protesters, but the newspaper article Thursday (Page C1) about the gas dealer in Skowhegan who won’t sell propane to Donald Trump supporters makes me speak out. Please, sir: Grow up. You, like many other protesters across the country, are acting like a spoiled little brat because you […]