I read the front-page March 27 article “Public art idea calls for floating dock in Back Cove where strangers meet” with disbelief. The group TEMPOart is supporting an art installation called Shifting Tides, with a 30-foot-by-30-foot floating dock in Back Cove. This includes an 80-foot gangway that would allow visitors to walk out over Back […]

All flat-black semi-automatic weapons need to be painted bright pink. If these weapons were painted pink, it might change the role-playing compulsive use of these weapons. Background checks, age restrictions, magazine capacity and mental health restrictions are all good ideas. However, painting semi-automatics pink would take the estimated 15 million semi-automatic weapons already circulating in […]

Re: “Ignoring Constitution on gun rights would open door to loss of other rights” (March 28): Before state Sen. Eric Brakey calls himself “a relentless defender of our Second Amendment,” maybe he should actually read the Second Amendment. The first words are “a well-regulated militia being essential to the security of a free state … […]

I’m concerned that Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, isn’t even meeting with environmental groups. Almost no one but his allies is being represented while decisions are being made about public health and safety. Pruitt giving top jobs to his friends is problematic. This must be why he has been able to […]

We are Maine physicians who greatly enjoy the outdoors. One of us (Nick) was part of the Yale team that, in 1976, described a new arthritic disease, then limited to residents of Lyme, Connecticut, and surrounding towns, later revealed to be caused by infection with a corkscrew-shaped microbe. Some 40 years later, hundreds of miles […]

In his letter supporting proficiency-based learning (March 24), I believe Peter Gore confuses proficiency-based learning with project-based learning. In project-based learning, students study core subjects and use that knowledge to create original projects in which they, to use Mr. Gore’s words, “communicate well, work collaboratively, problem-solve and think critically.” Proficiency-based learning, on the other hand, […]

I wonder if Stormy Daniels ever gave any thought about what life would be like for any child of hers. School years may well be brutal for her daughter. Here’s wishing her good luck. Manny Sargent Bath