I am shocked and saddened by the recent attack on the Ahram Halal Market on Forest Avenue. As a citizen of Portland, I am pleased to live in a diverse city where people of different religions and backgrounds can live according to their faiths and cultures. Was this a hate crime? I will leave that […]

Re: “Commentary: U.S. has duty to help blue-collar workers, but they have obligations, too” (Dec. 28): Michael R. Strain of the American Enterprise Institute is wrong. Salary subsidies are no help to blue-collar workers. In a free market, employers who do not offer a living wage for a job and cannot find workers have two […]

On Page D3 of the Dec. 25 Maine Sunday Telegram, editorial cartoonist Rick McKee of The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle highlighted the real meaning of Christmas. “The people who sat in darkness have seen a great light, And upon those who sat in the region and the shadow of death Light has dawned” (Matthew 4:16). For […]

I should be thrilled. I should be relieved. Because after two years in which Maine experienced record numbers of overdose deaths, beginning in January, there will be changes in our opioid policy! Access to prescription opioids will be more limited than ever, the paperwork to prescribe them will be even more arduous than before, and, […]