Growing up, I didn’t know much about Maine, but I could see dark green lines around Acadia National Park and the Allagash National Wilderness Waterway and knew that those were places I wanted to visit. The “national” status literally put them on the map. As a former chaplain and hotel employee in the national parks, […]

I was concerned to learn that St. Andre Home has to end two of the agency’s primary programs: its adoption program and Starling Place (a group home for pregnant women). I would expect that these programs could be supported by both pro-life and pro-choice groups. I have noticed Gov. LePage’s presence at pro-life events and […]

In response to Ted Bennett’s letter to the editor (Feb. 15), suggesting that transgender people using a bathroom that corresponds to their identity would somehow traumatize women who have been raped, I would ask: How much does he know about sexual assault on women and their response to it? Women’s bathrooms are fitted with closed-door […]

Thank you for the Feb. 14 editorial, “Our View: LePage shows little interest in governing.” It was a relief for me to read this. It was also a wake-up call. I have become so used to the governor’s antics that I may have begun to turn a blind eye. He is just so exasperating! You […]

Re: “Sorry, no kangaroos: Service-animal impostors face crackdown” (Feb. 22): I wholeheartedly agree with having some sort of state and/or federal certification for any “service animal.” I work in the affordable-housing field and daily see requests for “service animals” to be allowed because of a disability (we are then not allowed to ask what that […]