Welcome to another edition of Boos and Bravos, the catchall column of Here’s Something. Bravo to Sen. Susan Collins for demonstrating true stateswoman-like demeanor in the impeachment trial of President Trump. Collins, who’s represented Maine for 24 years in the Senate, recently said she’ll likely support a motion to call witnesses only after each side has […]
Forecaster Opinion
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Mainewhile: Everyone needs to engage with the art community
If you choose to share your life with an artist, as I do, the odds are good you are going to spend a fair amount of your leisure time popping into galleries, strolling through museums and scanning the cheese platter at art openings. Fortunately, I happen to like these spaces. I like them so much […]
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Letter: Youth are our hope for the future
In 1970, at age 23, living in Boston and working in Cambridge, I was convinced that doomsday was imminent. Revolution was in the air; kids were shot and killed at Kent State; Nixon’s great “silent majority” stood behind the Vietnam War; I awaited my draft number to come up and I’d be sent to the […]
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Letter: Make your voice heard at Augusta hearing on tank emissions
Concerned residents of South Portland are taking matters into their own hands. We are seeking answers and solutions to excessive and underregulated tank farm emissions. We’ve been kept in the dark for too long, and find that the EPA and Maine DEP have only recently begun to be transparent and take protective measures. The EPA […]
Posted inCoastal Journal, Forecaster Opinion
Over Easy: History of Shopping, part II
Ever wonder why the clothes that fit you so well 20 years ago are too small today? Has your size gone from medium to large without you knowing how or why? Well, here is a cockamamie theory to explain such a phenomenon. A theory that makes about as much sense as showing up at one […]
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Letter: The lies go on and on
I enjoyed Stuart Spigel’s excellent adventure in thought. As he says, “Truth is not partisan, Mr. Beem” (Jan. 3). It easily can be discovered on “Fox & Friends,” whose hosts all have undergraduate degrees in either journalism or unknown, with a political science minor. These truth-speakers agree with Stuart and I in dreading a dystopia […]
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Letter: Don’t repeal mandatory vaccination law
In less than two months we will be voting on the question of repealing the law passed last year concerning the mandatory vaccinations of all Maine students. l urge people to reject the people’s veto so that the state can continue to require all students to be protected against harmful diseases. The World Health Organization […]
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Letter: Three energy sources for carbon-free future
We want to make the world better and to diminish carbon emissions, which are destroying our atmosphere and causing climate change. The three energy sources that will take Maine into the carbon-free future are hydroelectric power, biomass and wind. We need these energy sources. Our world is being destroyed by this horrible byproduct. Biomass is […]
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The Universal Notebook: Foreign policy follies
The media is saturated these days with know-nothing talking heads pontificating about the U.S. drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qasem Soleimani. So let’s start by stipulating that most of us know little or nothing about foreign policy … and that includes Donald J. Trump. As private citizens, we want to believe that those in […]
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Life Unwound: Regrets teach us
I dreamt about my mother’s hands last night, her long slim fingers, stunning and smooth in her youth, bony and wrinkled as she aged, black-blue and withered at her death the day after Christmas. In my dream, I saw her rings that my father bought her to honor anniversaries, for Christmas gifts, and as gratitude […]