Portland Stage Company’s production of Yasmina Reza’s “God of Carnage” is set in a lofty, austere, modern apartment in Paris, with all that city connotes about culture and civilization and art. Veronique and Michel Reille have asked over Alain and Annette Houllie so that they can mediate a playground fight between their 11-year-old sons: Ferdinand […]

There are legitimate questions as to whether the U.S. made correct decisions around transportation since the 1960s, particularly the decisions to subsidize highway systems while regulating and penalizing the railroads. Let’s say for the benefit of the doubt that an average car costs $25,000. Eight cars cost $200,000, 80 cars $2 million and 800 cars […]

I encourage residents of Scarborough to donate to the fuel assistance fund for which the town and Project Grace have joined forces. In order to deal with the huge decreases in the budgets of low-income fuel assistance programs and the ever-rising cost of fuel, this cooperative program was established to head off tragedy for our […]

The Forecaster’s subjective reporting of Freeport Town Council elections is disappointing. It is not in the purview of reporters lacking contextual participatory experience, which enables discriminate analysis of fellow citizens’ intentions and actions, to instill divisiveness in a community process. Antagonistic press injecting words such as “tumultuous” and “sarcastic” undermines our incumbents, altogether threatening and […]

I’d like to present two comments regarding Edgar Allen Beem’s rants about the Republican Party. First, he pronounced that “the stunning failure of the congressional supercommittee to agree on reducing the deficit by $1.2 trillion was entirely a function of the unwillingness of Republicans to compromise.” I believe the Republicans have twice offered to compromise […]

On the day before Thanksgiving, after having spent the previous day having what I thought were snow tires put on our Volvo wagon, I was coming back in the snow and slush from delivering our dog to boarding in Yarmouth, when I slid off Greely Road in Cumberland opposite Doughty Road. As I was reaching […]

I want to express my thanks to the 5,617 voters who supported my campaign for Cumberland County commissioner, and my theme of thoughtful, moderate governance. We received a respectable 45 percent of the vote. I am particularly humbled by the 85 percent vote of support in Gray from those who know me so well after […]

I wholeheartedly agree with the comments made by Edgar Allen Beem in his Dec. 1 column. I would add our two Republican senators, purported by some to be moderates, and in particular Sen. Olympia Snowe, are both very much in sync with their conservative counterparts described by Beem. They do not and have not represented […]

I was very happy and grateful that Falmouth councilors recently voted to continue funding for the Falmouth Flyer bus. And it was heartening to read all the support expressed in letters to the editor. It shows a great community of thought and those of us in neighboring towns should take note. I would also like […]

The proponents of the no-whistle trains point out how safe the railway crossings are going to be with the installation of the special barriers and lights and gates (some of it, I imagine, at taxpayer expense). So now, we have about 50 feet of track, that is very safe. They make no mention however, about […]