Central Maine Power has been trying to buy Mainers’ approval of their wildly unpopular corridor project by spouting claims that the retroactivity provision of the November referendum question isn’t legal or fair. However, CMP knowingly entered into an illegal lease, crossing public lands before having all of their permits. That lease has now been revoked. […]

Please join me in voting for John Kelleher this November for Scarborough school board. I met John this year when he started his bid for the school board. I have found John to be extremely approachable and willing to consider various points of view. John also has deep roots in Scarborough. Having lived here his […]

I urge Portland voters to reelect Sarah Jordan Thompson to the Board of Public Education. Sarah’s institutional knowledge of our city and its schools, combined with an unparalleled work ethic regarding her at-large position on the board, is critical to the serious work facing Portland schools. She is the best candidate for this position. Sarah’s […]

I admire a recent writer’s loyalty to his local TV meteorologists (Letter to the editor, “Most Weather forecasts are all wet,” Sept. 20). He has followed and trusted weathercasters “over the years” even though he claims they “are wrong about 80 percent of the time.” He should assume the opposite of their forecasts; then he’d […]

Central Maine Power’s electricity corridor is a bad deal for Maine for many reasons, and I believe that is why CMP, which has been ranked as the worst-run U.S. company for customer satisfaction, is spending millions of dollars on deceptive ads trying to confuse people and convince them to support something they know has been […]

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 […]