Lately, our great city has had a rash of bad news regarding our unhoused population loitering and causing havoc at great restaurants like David’s or leaving trash that makes our city look dirty. Recently the Maine Art Museum is having second thoughts about enlarging now that it has the Children’s Museum because of the deterioration […]

I write with respect and admiration for Anelise Feldman, the high school track athlete who articulately addressed what it is actually like to be a teammate of the transgender student that censured Rep. Laurel Libby felt compelled to name in a Facebook post. Ms. Feldman’s letter to the editor on May 14 displayed maturity and […]

Noah Stern-Rich’s May 11 op-ed (“Maine needs to get its act together on gun laws“) seems to imply that the more anti-gun laws, the better. We already have a federal background check that works. It would work even better if all local criminal records were tied into the federal system. As to red flag laws, […]

Our president has bragged about the “most successful” first 100 days in presidential history. Successful for whom? The stock market has had its worst performance in a president’s first 100 days since 1974, and gross domestic product dropped over the first quarter of 2025, the first time in years. Of course, the president is not […]

There’s so much going on these days it’s hard to make sense of it. I’m not sure we can as it changes from day to day, and maybe that’s part of the whole idea. In fact, I’m writing this letter on Earth Day, but that hardly seems a blip as the stock market has tanked […]