As I looked into moving back to the Portland area in 2018, Kate Sykes was one of the first and friendliest faces to welcome me. The more I’ve gotten to know Kate, the more I’ve come to appreciate her passion or improving the living conditions of Portland residents and her dogged work ethic, especially when […]

We need the Republican Party to help solve the climate crisis because only a bipartisan solution can be enacted quickly, without danger of being undone after the next election. We saw climate change with our own eyes this summer, and yet the Republican Party now plans to reverse the progress President Biden has made on […]

As a longtime advocate for employers and a healthy Maine economy, the Pine Tree Power proposal frightens me. The idea of the government taking over any private company smacks of developing countries nationalizing their industries. It also smells like there’s more to this agenda. What next? Imagine politicians taking over FedEx because a small group […]

I lived for three years in Los Angeles, my wife’s hometown, before returning to Maine. During our time there, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power would periodically drop off free high-efficiency LED lightbulbs at our front door, as well as water-saving shower fixtures. The department did this because it is a municipal-owned utility, […]

With all the deserved attention to the homeless struggling in Portland and statewide, why have we not heard about our U.S. senators and representatives meeting the homeless to hear firsthand from the people most affected? Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and Reps. Chellie Pingree and Jared Golden should visit with these people and make […]

Mark Dion is the best fit for the role of mayor as described in our charter. He frames his campaign as seeking to answer questions, while others ignore the fact voters rejected a “CEO-style” role, offering meaningless promises about specific projects or numerical targets Portland’s mayor can’t force. Dion is a proven bridge builder, from […]

Bob McKillop’s Oct. 3 letter on the dangers of not understanding history’s lessons, “We need to take threat to democracy very seriously,” advises a reading of “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by William Shirer. There is a shorter, more easily understood and recent publication, titled “On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth […]

In the last two years, over $90 million has been spent by foreign corporations to influence Mainers in referendum campaigns. Opponents of Question 2 claim that corporations have this right because it’s free speech. We know it’s pay to play. Mainers are fighting back. The Legislature passed L.D. 1610, An Act to Prohibit Campaign Spending […]