I write in response to a Dec. 5 letter from Rosemarie Lawrence of Bailey Island. Like her, I am a 70-year-old, privileged to live on an island in Casco Bay. Unlike her, I am inspired, not distressed, by many younger adults. Yes, some are passive and somewhat pampered, although they face college debt and a […]

I would like to respond to Rosemarie Lawrence’s Dec. 5 letter (“Pampered young people prove to be real deplorables”). I am of her generation and agree somewhat that some young people are “spoiled,” as she says, but on the other hand, many are amazingly hardworking, socially aware and committed to social change. What I object […]

Are our expectations so low that we accept a loss as a win? Do we not know what a win is anymore? Bottom line: Carrier Corp. has a plant in Mexico, 600 jobs are still going there and the good people of Indiana are going to have to deal with $700,000 a year in lost […]

Why must Portland’s City Hall always buckle under to the demands of developers at the expense of her citizens? Word seems to have gotten out that any developer that wants to violate Portland’s building codes just needs to ask and it shall be given. One of the latest: the shameless bait-and-switch by Americold, which made […]

Portland’s historically supply-constrained rental housing market has loosened up for only one reason: New supply has been built in quantity for the first time since the 1930s. To economically justify new construction, market rents had to increase. That they increased as much as they have was an unequivocal sign that the city was woefully undersupplied. […]