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 […]

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 […]