Thank you for your front-page story Sept. 19 on Cathy Moulton’s unsolved disappearance 50 years ago. Hopefully it will result in new information and a conclusion to this case. My family moved to Portland the weekend before school started in 1970. Deering High School could be a difficult place for a new kid. I was […]

The new government of Afghanistan has decided to resume executions. Undoubtedly, most of us view that practice by the Taliban as barbaric. We need to remember, however, that the United States is also a nation that practices capital punishment. But our executions are justified, you say, saved for the irredeemable? Death row inmates, like all […]

I voted for Susan Collins for her first term and have regretted it ever since. I’m a lifelong Democrat but admired William Cohen and Olympia Snowe. When she first ran for Senate in 1996, Ms. Collins was a young, energetic moderate who planned to limit herself to two terms. I thought she would follow in […]

The author of a recent letter to the editor (“Truth about voting in Maine distorted,” Sept. 23, Page A10) said Sen. Susan Collins “chose to lie to a national audience about Maine’s system of voting.” Sen. Collins said Maine has “one of the highest turnouts in the country… .” Sen. Collins is right. According to […]

I agreed with Tae Chong’s Sept. 24 commentary that we should focus more directly on the achievement gap for students who are Black, brown or in poverty, rather than political correctness and feel-good spending. I recently moved here from San Francisco to Falmouth, and my three Latino and African American kids like that the schools […]

Mainers should not be fooled by the lies and distortions coming from the opponents of Question 1. This referendum is about protecting the western Maine mountains. The first part of the referendum bans high-impact transmission lines in the Upper Kennebec Region. The second part ensures that future projects like this one receive legislative oversight to […]

Come November, to support cleaner, more-accessible hydropower, Maine voters need to vote “no” on Question 1. It is not hard to do. Loretta Mackinnon Yarmouth

In August, the Commonwealth Fund issued a report comparing health care in the U.S. to 10 other high-income countries. The U.S. compared dismally, ranking last in health care affordability and health equity. The U.S. health care system also has the highest rate of infant mortality and deaths that would have been prevented with good health […]