We, the Social Justice Team of the Congregational Church in Cumberland, were shocked and saddened to learn that a play at Falmouth’s Footlights Theatre, “APPELL: The Other Side of the Fence” by Anne Drakopolous, has drawn ugly epithets and even Holocaust denials. Americans are fortunate to enjoy freedom of speech, but anti-Semitic language and hate […]

I know the increase of taxes is a thorny issue. I am on a fixed budget, and so it is for me, too. However, I believe in public education and, as a citizen of Portland, I urge our citizens to support a raise in our taxes rather than a cut in our services. Maine has […]

As I joined thousands of other Mainers in Portland on Saturday demanding serious gun control actions by our elected officials, I lamented that I did not create and display a sign asking one simple question: “Where is Susan Collins on this issue?” Here is the historical answer, provided by National Public Radio in an in-depth […]

I loved Greg Kesich’s column of March 21 (“A birthday party can take you on a ride in a time machine“), but one phrase gave me pause. In imagining the world that an American baby born in 1824 would know, he said that “most of North America still was an unsettled frontier.” But that’s not […]

I spent all day Saturday watching the amazing march on Washington and crying at the eloquence of these brave teenagers. I feel deep shame that, as a baby boomer, my generation did nothing to force our politicians to make this a safe country. I was undecided about who to support for the governor’s race, only […]

Terry Hayes’ March 24 op-ed, “Our state can’t afford any more divisive partisanship in Augusta,” is rather disingenuous with regard to the independent candidate’s comments on getting “big money” out of Maine’s gubernatorial race. The Maine Clean Election Fund allows candidates with name recognition, energetic volunteers and little access to personal assets to compete in […]

Some time ago, I contacted the Office of the State Controller to ask when I could expect to receive a form prepared by that office that I need in order to file my tax returns in a timely fashion. As of Monday, I have not received any response. More recently, I posed the same question […]

The state agency is essentially having the power utility investigate itself, while the utility blames the agency for the initial complaints. Can we trust the results?