As we celebrate joyfully with friends and family this holiday season, American Humane – the country’s first national humane organization – is reminding pet owners to take safety steps to ensure that the holidays are just as merry for their furry friends. When you deck the halls, keep in mind that many popular holiday decorations […]

I believe that everyone who receives Social Security as a retirement income receives a benefits letter from the Social Security Administration each year, in mid-December, that tells them how much they will receive each month for the coming year. Last year Social Security recipients did not get a cost-of-living raise, apparently because our government officials […]

I wish to express my heartfelt thanks to the kind gentleman who stopped to help haul me out of a snowdrift at the end of my driveway that I had tripped and fallen into last Saturday on Estes Drive in Freeport. The snow was so deep and soft that I couldn’t get my feet under […]

As a fellow lifelong progressive Democrat, I would like to respond to letter writer Tom Mikulka’s critique of President Obama (Dec. 16). One person cannot enact a lasting progressive agenda, even if he is the president. The only way President Obama could have enacted legislation that would have pleased Mr. Mikulka would have been to […]

Maine faces a difficult and ongoing crisis with regard to people with mental illness. This plays out daily in emergency rooms across the state, where patients with acute and difficult-to-manage mental illnesses can wait for days and sometimes weeks for a bed at a qualified facility. The state’s authorization earlier this year to open an […]