I am very concerned about the certain prospect that the Affordable Care Act will be repealed by Congress and its replacement will not meet the needs of millions of people who rely on the monthly subsidy in order to afford a premium for anything other than catastrophic coverage. People who have had comprehensive health coverage […]

It was interesting to see all of the people out there protesting the election outcome, spouting off against intolerance, hate and prejudice. Where was their tolerance, love and compassion toward all their fellow American citizens when they lost their jobs to outsourcing? Why were they not out there picketing and protesting against all the companies […]

Re: “Maine drug deaths averaging one a day” (Page A1, Nov. 15): What will it be in 2017? The passing of the marijuana bill will increase it by far. Teens will always find a way to get some more. As a mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, I know how they think! They will find a way […]

Unfortunately, we have loved ones who have spent over 200 hours receiving chemotherapy treatment at the New England Cancer Specialists facility in Scarborough. Our extended family has had to, painfully, observe the recurrence, in 2016, of my wife’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma and my daughter’s appendiceal cancer. But, rather than be forlorn, on Thanksgiving, we are so […]

I was shocked to read of the city’s plan to pay for the extension of Thames Street with taxpayer dollars, in order to create access to a private development and to sell a critical piece of city property to the developer for less than half of its market value! There is no justification for requiring […]