I am writing in response to the recent letter to the editor regarding the irresponsible coverage by the Maine Trust for Local News of Graham Platner’s candidacy (“Paper’s love of Platner is irresponsible,” Jan. 1).  I agree with the author regarding the preferential publicity given to this senatorial candidate by the recent coverage, but am […]

Although it may seem inconsequential to many, we all should be alarmed at the termination of The Earth Observer, a NASA publication with a 37-year history of reporting on the salient observations of NASA’s space effort to understand the makeup and evolution of planet Earth.   Unfortunately, the impacts of human habitation of planet Earth […]

We invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban in 2001. Millions were displaced, hundreds of thousands of Afghans died and thousands of U.S. and allied service men and women were killed or suffered terrible injuries. Maine had the highest death rate per capita of any state. Today, the Taliban is back in power. We invaded Iraq […]