It’s been over a month since Alan Caron’s Nov. 6 column on poison politics and how to fix it and over one month since our elections. Our nation remains divided and angry with the half of America that voted the other way. I am the founder of Komodia, a nonpartisan nonprofit that uses the power […]

Reading the Nov. 22 article that mentioned the top 10 salaries paid to city of Portland employees, I noted that each of them is paid more than the governor. He certainly is underpaid, and any future governor would be, too. With all the baloney thrown at him, he is entitled to be paid more. Marjorie […]

As someone who has grown up around animals and lived with them all her life, I find it disheartening that instead of realizing the value of the cow’s life that was lost, Misty Meadow Farms is concerned only with how much money they lost (“Vandals set hundreds of cows loose at Maine dairy farm and […]

Without offering proof, Gov. LePage recently cast doubt on Maine’s election results, saying, “… I maintain strong concerns regarding the integrity of Maine’s ballot and the accuracy of Maine’s election results … .” (Page A8, Dec. 3). What an affront to the hundreds of hardworking Mainers who labored so carefully on election night to accurately […]

It occurs to me that three things occurred in the presidential campaign, the absence of any one of which would have resulted in Hillary Clinton’s election: • FBI Director James Comey’s announcements, with the misleading implication that more Hillary emails were (or were not) an issue. • The Russian release of hacked emails from the Clinton […]