As I watched the Feb. 21 60 Minutes piece on Syria and President Assad, I was really choked up. He has tortured and murdered millions of his people, mostly innocent children, with illegal barrel bombs. Assad has ordered the eyes cut from living prisoners, a boy taken from a bus because he had an anti-government […]

Democrats should include federal funding for cultured-meat research in their coronavirus-relief bill. For readers who aren’t aware, cultured meat is grown from cells, without slaughter. Since animals are removed from the process, the risk of zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 making the jump to humans is eliminated. Our current food system — which relies on huge […]

The column by David Flanagan, Central Maine Power’s chairman, that recently ran in your paper (“CMP is on the team for Maine’s renewable-energy future,” Feb. 23) was truly something else. My first thought, when reading it, was “Dear God. They can’t manage the grid they have now, yet they want to cut our state in […]

Again, your headline writer hits it out of the park, three times in one edition. I refer to Feb. 12. The front page, over the centerpiece photo: “A Moment Frozen in Rime” played on the words of an old saying, and introduced many readers to the concept of frosty rime. Then, on the front of […]

“This is the true and central program of the Lenten Season: to listen to the word of truth, to live, speak and do what is true, to refuse falsehood that poisons humanity and is the vehicle of all evils.” (Benedict XVI, General Audience given Ash Wednesday, March 1, 2006, p. 11) Let us give up […]

Maine Public recently released a story headlined “The Maine GOP Has Condemned Susan Collins’ Vote To Convict Trump – But She’s Not Having Any Of It.” As a lifelong Republican and strong supporter of our senator, Susan Collins, I absolutely love this headline because it speaks volumes to the kind of leader she is. During […]

Yesterday my husband and I were fortunate to receive our second dose of the COVID vaccine at Scarborough Downs. We were waiting out our 15-minute observation time to ensure we were having no immediate adverse reaction from the vaccine. I leaned into my husband and said if I were a health care worker, I would […]

The president of the Azerbaijan Society of Maine, Tarlan Ahmadov, asked Portland Mayor Kate Snyder to sign a “Khojala Remembrance Day” proclamation. The proclamation is historically inaccurate and victimizes those who have suffered persecution and genocide by Turkey and Azerbaijan for 130 years. The stages of grief following loss are denial, anger, bargaining, depression and […]