If hot-button causes are to succeed, support for them cannot come from the Republican Party alone.
2023
Posted inHealth, Maine, News, Uncategorized
A Cumberland couple’s hospice care has ended. Their need for it has not
The home visits that Babette O’Dwyer, 94, has been receiving since suffering a stroke in 2018 have been cut off, putting the entire burden on her 77-year-old husband, Bartholomew.
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Posted inBusiness, Maine, News
Unfurling the facts in the 1901 Maine state flag debate
History, politics and design sensibilities collide as residents of the Pine Tree State consider which banner to embrace.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Insight: COVID’s summer resurgence resists easy answers
Attributing an increase in cases to people moving indoors doesn’t make much sense. What does?
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Sunday Portland talk will focus on alternatives to U.S. spending in Ukraine
The Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing anniversaries hold up the gravity of nuclear weapons and remind us of the significant risks caused by providing weapons for the war Russia started in Ukraine. Instead of seeking a diplomatic path to avoid greater disaster, the United States continues to spend billions of dollars on fighting. To help understand […]
Posted inFood, Recipes
Home Plates: Come summer, cooking outside is a joy. Let vegetables shine in this Grilled Ratatouille
Local farmers markets and Laura Motley’s own vegetable garden swell with abundance now, and a favorite recipe makes the most of the produce.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: Match rhetoric of Indigenous sovereignty in Maine with reality
The tribal bill vetoed this year would have done a lot for the Wabanaki people, though not enough.
Posted inLetters
Letter to the editor: Many have much to learn about the power of an apology
As a subscriber to Martin’s Point Health Care, I was chagrined, at least, to read about my provider getting their hands caught in the cookie jar (Aug. 4). What disturbs me is this statement: “As part of the settlement, Martin’s Point was not required to admit to any wrongdoing.” Why not? Did they – or […]
Posted inFood, Maine Gardener
Give your garden that certain je nais se quois with topiary
Snug Harbor Farm in Kennebunk sells topiary and teaches classes in how to train and prune plants into stylized shapes.
Posted inOp-eds, Opinion
Commentary: What ‘Oppenheimer’ doesn’t tell us about nuclear material
It’s no accident that people opt for the scientist over the general. I worry that history is lost in the process.