Since my family moved to North Yarmouth four years ago, we’ve lost power innumerable times. Last week, no power for three hours; Saturday, a short blip, a seemingly weekly occurrence. Most Mainers lost power for several days last Halloween. (Us? Five.) We’ve had Christmas here with no power for two days, along with no power […]

It was radio personality Don Imus who said of the late octogenarian television news celebrity Mike Wallace on the occasion of Wallace’s 80th birthday: “Mike Wallace is so old he doesn’t buy green bananas.” And, it was American show business icon Bob Hope who declared before he died in 2003 at 100 years of age: […]

John Balentine seems to feel that today’s protest issues are not a matter of life and death (“For good reason, today’s protests lack a soundtrack”). Our deportation of people to Haiti, El Salvador and other countries may not be issues of life or death for him perhaps, because he is not faced with deportation. Would […]

How disappointing that the political ideologies of a few conservative town councilors squelched the Solarize Yarmouth initiative. I am miffed by how a program as innocuous as this could be perceived as anything less than a win-win for residents. Since when did the role of local government cease to include assisting residents who are attempting […]

Thank you for Orlando Delogu’s column, “Enough is never enough for Bath Iron Works,” which lays out the facts one needs to reject LD 1781 in the state Legislature. Maine’s infrastructure and human services needs are pressing and imperative for the well-being of working Mainers. The diversion of $60 million from those needs to General […]

As usual, Maine is going about it all wrong. We can’t cure the problem of our aging population with feeble programs designed to attract more young people. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Office of Statistical Weirdness, this state is plagued with the largest number of old coots per capita in the United States. I’d […]

I consume the news on a fairly steady basis and, similarly to how I felt during the Iraq war, I feel far removed from the wave of political protests taking place. Without media reports, would I know that a wave of women is protesting sexual harassment? Would I know that blacks are upset with what […]

As a lifetime, card-carrying member of the Democratic Party – from holding an Adlai Stevenson campaign sign to working with Minnesotans Humphrey, Mondale, McCarthy and Freeman, to running for the Massachusetts House of Representatives – I moved to Cape Elizabeth last year and planned to enroll as an independent. I was determined not to support the […]

I am deeply disappointed that the Yarmouth Town Council voted against endorsing a town-sponsored Solarize program. Solarize programs have been conducted successfully by the nearby towns of Freeport and Brunswick. The town facilitates a competitive bidding process and selects a solar installer who installs solar panels at a discount for those who wish to participate. […]

The corner of Woodville and Falmouth roads at 7:30 each morning is about as much stress and risk as one should handle each day. Having moved to Falmouth a few months ago, I still can’t say that I have “gotten used to” trying to navigate this perennially dangerous intersection each morning after I drop my […]