What remains of a young learner when their capacity for language has been usurped?
2025
A conservation success story in Maine’s North Woods | Nature Connects
Deep within Maine’s 100-Mile Wilderness, Atlantic salmon and native brook trout are making a slow but steady comeback.
Clarifying Maine’s voter ID referendum | Letter
This letter is a follow-up to Joe Moore’s May 5 op-ed regarding the Voter ID for ME proposal created by the conservative PAC The Dinner Table. This proposal will likely be put to the voters in the November election. It is critical that voters understand several things. • Most importantly, there is negligible voter fraud […]
Fight for both health care and clean air | Letter
I am a physician recently retired from practice in Portland. Every day, I saw residents living with lung diseases, such as COPD, asthma and lung cancer, who depended on access to treatments and medications as well as clean air to ensure that they can stay healthy enough to work, go to family events and live […]
America needs to rain on Trump’s parade | Letter
We the people need to strongly oppose President Trump’s plan to have a military parade on June 14 in honor of his 79th birthday. He is justifying the parade by saying it is also a celebration of the Army’s 250th anniversary. It is beyond appalling that the parade will cost tens of millions of our […]
Buckle up, Maine voters, it’s going to be one crazy 2026 | Jim Fossel
The Blaine House is wide open, the U.S. Senate race could be competitive and former Gov. Paul LePage should add some color to the 2nd District congressional campaign.
Gov. Mills a woman to be respected in the Maine tradition | Letter
The way Gov. Janet Mills stood up to the president deserves much more attention. When the federal government tried to paint her as a villain for doing her job, it wasn’t just political — it was bullying. Executive orders are not laws, and she was well within her rights to act in the best interest […]
Zoning must be used to solve Maine’s housing crisis | Opinion
While it’s not a silver bullet, zoning is a critical tool.
National Endowment for the Humanities’ life-changing work in jeopardy | Opinion
If greatness is truly the administration’s goal, it should allow the NEH to continue its work.
Obituary: Samuel Clement Kelly III
SCARBOROUGH – Samuel Clement Kelly III, 80, passed away peacefully on March 16, 2025.
A celebration of Sam’s life with full …