My response to the March 12 opinion piece, “Maine lobstermen will not be scapegoated over right whale,” is that I do blame the lobster industry for the deaths of right whales, entangled in their ropes. Previously, there were no identifying markers on their ropes allowing the lobster industry to escape responsibility. But there are others […]

I had hoped to testify in Augusta on March 7 in support of the proposed gun safety legislation but was unable to stay late enough to do so. I planned to say the following: Our daughter is an EMT who was working in Lisbon on Oct. 25, 2024. That night she called to report she […]

I am responding to the March 15 front-page article, “Portland is now ticketing cars with expired registrations.” I moved to Maine from Connecticut in July 2014. One of the first things on my to-do list was to register my car here, which I did. The following year, I did not realize that my registration had […]

Hand grenades are arms to be carried; so are bayonets, poison gas canisters, shivs, flamethrowers, etc. Must we put up with those on our streets or in our homes? Our Constitution (if we want to read it that way) lets us carry those things around and, if we are scared and angry, use them. Our […]

For the second time this year, the State House in Augusta had to be evacuated for threats likely from extremist MAGA and associated Christian nationalists, neo-Nazi groups, and other hate groups targeting progressive lawmakers. On March 8, a bomb threat was directed at two Democratic representatives sponsoring L.D.227, a “shield” law indemnifying Maine clinicians providing […]

The Independent Commission to Investigate the Facts of the Tragedy in Lewiston has done an excellent job so far by acknowledging that both the military and law enforcement failed to protect the Maine public from a known and credible threat of violence. I hope the commissioners will ultimately have the courage to acknowledge that elected […]

At the end of World War II, when I was in school in Germany, I received a chocolate bar through the Marshall Plan. It was a Hershey bar with almonds. It tasted so good. Afterwards I asked my mother, “Why do they first bomb the hell out of us and then give us chocolate bars?” […]

I write today as a concerned citizen of Maine. Our culture is increasingly exiling us from God, religion and spirituality. I see a lot of people struggling to make sense of life and have meaning. Recognize that the more we become disconnected from God, the more meaningless life becomes. Removing God’s influence from our lives […]