A local newspaper featured an obituary recently describing the steps that a lady from Finland had to complete in order to immigrate to the United States in 1958. She had to pass a full medical exam, have a sponsor, and have place of employment and a place to live. It took her four years before […]

I’m not proud to say this: I was a NIMBY. I told myself – and I actually told the town at a town meeting – that it was not in our interests to have affordable housing for seniors built in a field whose right-of-way was adjacent to my property. I said that its entrance would […]

The Hill Arts Project has so many good things planned for the community. A new mid-sized performance space and working to expand after-school programs are terrific ideas. But The Good Theater is a Portland institution that has been providing excellent theater experiences for their audiences, whether that audience is from Portland, Kennebunk, Arundel, Saco, Falmouth […]

The recent decision by the United States Supreme Court to hear oral arguments related to former President Donald J. Trump’s presidential immunity claim is cause for great concern. It appears that the court does not take seriously the threat to the United States rule of law posed by the continued delays generated by Mr. Trump’s […]

As a registered Democrat who votes 100% Republican, I’m trying to figure out what motto works best for President Joe Biden: “Don’t Do As Democrats Do, Do As Democrats Tell You To” is one of my favorites. Since day one, Biden has said “the country was like this when I got here” and “it’s all […]

A fact that is frequently overlooked in discussions of gun violence is that 89% of deaths by gun in Maine are suicides, and more than half of suicide deaths in Maine are by gun. The reason so many deaths are by gun is because attempts by gun are lethal 85% of the time, compared, for […]

Would you please stop printing pictures of Robert Card? There is nothing worse than getting my paper out of the delivery box, sitting with my coffee and seeing him stare back at me from the front page. It feels like ripping the bandage off a wound — over and over and over. Jo-Ann Bertrand Biddeford

I am 90 years old and a native Mainer. I was a college student in Boston in 1952 when there was a huge rally at Boston Garden for Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, running for president. It was a thrilling experience; I could not wait to register as a Republican and vote for Eisenhower. That was […]