2021

Theorizing about conspiracy theorists What if opposition to covid safety isn’t simply the result of “vaccine hesitancy”? What if it’s round two of an intentional attack on our country? I developed this conspiratorial belief in two days of Facebook I’ll never get back. A Maine father posted, “I get to decide if my kids wear […]

Letters

Letter to the editor: Inoculation order will protect Maine caregivers, patients

September 8, 2021September 7, 2021

I am grateful. It seems to me that Gov. Mills and Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention Director Nirav Shah, M.D., are the only two adults in the room who believe in science, consider the data and then take decisive action to protect Maine’s vulnerable medical population while others dither away mindlessly. The mandate […]

Op-eds, Opinion

Commentary: Americans who say they pay income taxes are probably lying

by Jared Dillian Bloomberg Opinion September 8, 2021September 7, 2021

Even in normal times, nearly half of U.S. households pay nothing to the federal government. It may be time to institute a minimum rate.

Times Record Opinion

Carl Golden: Reporters deserve praise for tough coverage of Biden

by Carl Golden Guest column September 8, 2021September 7, 2021

At one point in his running, four-year war with the news media, former President Donald Trump referred to it as “the enemy of the people,” a remark which rightfully drew a cascade of denunciations from news organizations, academics, members of Congress and the punditocracy which inhabits cable television opinion studios. The remark was needlessly provocative, […]

Maine, News

For sisters of Mainer on doomed flight, ‘It’s the day our family changed forever’

by Eric Russell September 8, 2021September 7, 2021

James Roux, a Portland attorney, was on the hijacked plane that crashed into the south tower of the World Trade Center just after 9 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001.

Letters

Letter to the editor: Maine EMS workers urged to get vaccinated

September 8, 2021September 7, 2021

Someone who has not been inoculated and is dealing with a patient could be putting that person at risk of illness.

South Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies

A Window on the Past – William Lane, Spring Point’s first lighthouse keeper

by Kathryn Onos DiPhilippo September 8, 2021September 7, 2021

Historical society’s Engraved Brick Program raises crucial funds.

South Portland Sentry, Southern Maine Weeklies

Our Sustainable City – Plug in to electric vehicle market

by Cashel Stewart September 8, 2021September 2, 2021

There are now over 80 models of electric vehicles commercially available in the U.S., many of which can be found in Maine. These vehicles are cheaper and more technologically advanced than they have ever been, with a wide variety of makes and models to choose from. Two common misconceptions about electric vehicles are that they […]