If you needed a reason either to move to Maine or to be happy you already live here, you need go no further than reading Staff Writer Kelley Bouchard’s front-page article “The race is on” in the Jan. 31 Maine Sunday Telegram. Bouchard describes in some detail the way the rundown Scarborough Downs racetrack was […]

Repeating the folly of its 1960s predecessor, which destroyed Union Station, the City Council rejected the proposed Munjoy Hill Historic District, rationalizing the rejection largely on an uncertain economic impact. In 2007, then-Gov. John Baldacci named Muskie School professor Richard Barringer head of the Governor’s Council on Maine’s Quality of Place. In a report, the […]

I know firsthand how hard it is to challenge the fictional or twisted story of someone more powerful than you. I sympathize with those who have been duped into believing or supporting the fictional story. You trust that person, believe in that person, want to believe that person’s story. It’s easy to get caught up […]

I read with interest the Jan. 31 articles on the difficulty in getting vaccines in Maine (“State sees progress, frustrations in rollout of vaccinations,” Page A1; “Bill Nemitz: Pondering patience in a time of pandemic,” Page B1). In 1947 New York City vaccinated 6 million people in one month for smallpox. We are not doing […]

Susan Collins has it right: Censure Donald Trump, forgo an impeachment trial and move ahead. It’s clear that a trial will not result in a conviction. It’s also clear that it will change few minds. Former President Trump will be able to boast that he was acquitted, that the whole endeavor was simply another witch […]

Re:”Nearly all GOP senators vote against impeachment trial” (Jan. 27, Page A2): A cynic and pessimist would read this Associated Press article, regarding the Senate procedural vote of Jan. 26, and think that the Republican senators’ objection to impeachment as being unconstitutional demonstrate continued spineless behavior and fear of retaliation from a twice-impeached former president […]

Sen. Susan Collins should not be trying to replace a Senate impeachment trial with censure. Donald Trump is an American citizen and was the American president, who took an oath of office to uphold the Constitution of the United States. The lies he told for months on end and the insurrection he encouraged on Jan. […]

Here is something I agree with former President Donald Trump about: We need to do something about Section 230. Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 is a federal statute that provides immunity for social media websites that publish libelous material. Other publishers have no such immunity: If I defamed you in this […]