Many Maine communities, with downtown growth, consider parking a necessary ingredient for further economic growth and resident happiness. To this end, Biddeford might build a parking garage, the Press Herald reported Nov. 30 in the article “Downtown Biddeford’s all abuzz, but the parking’s a buzzkill.” A municipal parking garage can be an important asset for […]

Daniel C. Bryant, M.D., deserves credit for seizing the moment in his Dec. 5 Maine Voices column, “Trump’s health care policy appears heavy on complexity, light on mercy.” In analyzing each of six changes that President-elect Donald Trump promises to make to our health care system (outlined on Trump’s website), Dr. Bryant exposes their multiple […]

One recent evening, we received a call from our granddaughter, who is a teacher at a charter school in Springfield, Massachusetts, and whose fifth-graders are predominantly Hispanic and black. She said that the children, the students, were afraid and very upset, because the next president of the United States is a man who thinks he […]

Throughout its history, AARP has had a vision of an America whose towns and cities nurture the mobility, safety and engagement of citizens throughout their lives. In 2012, AARP implemented a program, the AARP Network of Age-Friendly Communities, to support cities, towns and neighborhoods across the country. More than any other state, Maine cities and […]