In regard to George Lawson’s letter published on Jan. 5: I believe that responsible journalism should weigh the credibility of information before publishing it. When a team of lawyers working for months cannot convince any judicial authority that there has been enough done “wrong” during the election to merit overturning the results – including judges […]
January 2021
Posted inBill Nemitz, Op-eds, Opinion
Bill Nemitz: Welcome to a day that will blemish U.S. history
Sen. Angus King warns that Trump loyalists in Congress threaten our very democracy. He’s right.
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Posted inTimes Record
From the Chamber: Year in review, Part IV: The last half-year
This is the final installment of our year in review where we remember the good things that happened in 2020, while also recognizing the struggles we’ve overcome. In Part I, we looked at some good things that were currently underway, or about to happen, over the holidays. In Part II we highlighted the Chamber’s Annual […]
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Letter: Sorry, but getting back to normal will take longer than we want
I read with interest Michael Reagan’s column in Monday’s edition of The Times Record (“2021 can’t be any worse, can it?“). And, with a certain amount of amusement at some of his comments. Frankly, I wondered what sort of world he’s living in. Is he aware that the death toll from the COVID-19 virus is […]
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: 2005 election challenge was bad – 2021 is much worse
Republican senators who refuse to certify Biden’s victory are inflaming doubts they helped kindle. That’s poison for democracy.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: National popular vote would take small states off presidential map
Candidates would focus only on the battlegrounds, disenfranchising millions of people nationwide.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Dick Polman: Another perfect beautiful Trump call
Leave it to Trump to cap off his catastrophic tenure by tripling down on the criminal behavior that got him impeached in the first place. It’s safe to assume that Brad Raffensperger, Georgia’s Republican secretary of state, never imagined he’d be muscled like Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky. Spineless Senate Republicans exonerated Trump last winter after he […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: One voter, one vote a more equitable way to elect a leader
So we are probably all getting tired of the Electoral College, but did you know that each state’s voters actually have a different amount of voter power? Yeah, one more way that our system is not truly democratic. Voters in Wyoming have the most weight to their vote, almost three times the weight of California’s […]
Posted inThe Forecaster
People & Business: Jan. 6
Helping the hungry Holiday heroes Sam “The Bottle Man” Rideout, a 12-year-old sixth grader at Memorial Middle School in South Portland, raised just over $18,000 to purchase gifts, equipment and supplies for children at Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland this year. Rideout has been collecting bottles since he was 8 years old to raise […]
Posted inThe Forecaster
People & Business: Jan. 6
Helping the hungry Holiday heroes Sam “The Bottle Man” Rideout, a 12-year-old sixth grader at Memorial Middle School in South Portland, raised just over $18,000 to purchase gifts, equipment and supplies for children at Barbara Bush Children’s Hospital in Portland this year. Rideout has been collecting bottles since he was 8 years old to raise […]
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