As a long time advocate of alternative fueled vehicles and the owner of both a true electric vehicle and a plug-in hybrid, I urge Portland to charge a fee for electric chargers. Three things: 1. To seriously encourage people to switch to electric vehicles, we need far more public charging places; a charging fee would […]
2021
Posted inDo This
Face the Music: Return to concerts is like coming home
Shows in Brownfield, Portland and Arundel mark an emotional return to a favorite pastime.
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Posted inEditorials, Opinion
Another View: Make new internet networks future proof
A one-time investment in the information superhighway should not stick users in the slow lane.
Posted inTimes Record Opinion
Dick Polman: Rupert Murdoch is launching Fox Weather. We can only imagine.
This is for real: Rupert Murdoch will soon launch a new platform, Fox Weather. Wrap your head around that one. Brian Wieser, a prominent media analyst, said it best the other day: “How do you address the fact that weather changes are caused to some degree by humans when you have a media property with […]
Posted inLetters
Letter to the Editor: Return of Portland’s fireworks applauded
Thanks to Portland for resuming the July 4th fireworks on the Eastern Prom this year. Almost a half hour of often spectacular displays, capped by a fantastic three-minute grand finale, provided a stirring celebration of the resiliency that has made this country great. Kudos to Central Maine Pyro for putting on a faultless show, after […]
Posted inMaine colleges, Sports, Varsity Maine
Meet the most coveted basketball recruit from Maine in a generation
Six-foot-nine Dominick Campbell of Scarborough turned heads with his performance at a tournament in Dallas, generating interest from high-profile college programs across the nation.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the Editor: Learning racial past is key to a better future
Several recent letters to this paper have misunderstood and mischaracterized critical race theory. It doesn’t assert, as Pamela Brant writes, that all whites are racist and should be shamed, and all blacks are oppressed victims. Rather, it re-examines history and concludes that individual racism cannot explain our racist past, so American society must be structurally […]
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
‘It feels like a rebirth’: Opera Maine returns with two shows
‘As One’ opens this week in Westbrook, while ‘The Elixir of Love’ takes the stage at Merrill Auditorium later this month.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Do This
Emerging from pandemic, YES ensemble affirms a hunger to create
The Bath-based group, a dance-theater hybrid, will perform ‘Motionally Available’ in Camden and Portland.
Posted inDo This, Food
Eat & Run: Fat Puppy Fusion puts flatbread to good use
The food truck stationed in Brunswick for the summer serves creative hot dogs and other handheld concoctions.