The confederacy of dunces who closed their eyes to the obvious lack of housing and basic services to accommodate vulnerable migrants should required to wear their dunce caps in public. Now they want to dump the problem they created in somebody else’s lap – out of sight and out of mind 90 miles away (“Portland […]

“I have one word for you: plastics.” In 1967, the movie “The Graduate” came out. The main character, played by a very young Dustin Hoffman, was given advice on how the future was in plastics. Sixty years later, look at what that has led to around the planet. Plastics suffocate our waterways and oceans and […]

With regard to the current standoff between UPS and the Teamsters union, it’s not just about package delivery. If the union goes on strike, it will be inconvenient, but UPS customers will use the U.S. Postal Service or FedEx. When public-sector workers go on strike, their customers have nowhere else to go. They are negotiating […]

In a June 18 op-ed (“Get the facts straight when debating solar programs”), Prof. John F. Gardner lectured us on the benefits of solar power. Unfortunately, he avoids other facts about the industry. Through the photosynthesis process, forests are great filters of carbon dioxide and producers of oxygen. The management of forests for carbon sequestration […]

I’m writing in support of L.D. 1215, An Act to End the Sale of Flavored Tobacco. As a reproductive health care provider at Planned Parenthood of Northern New England, I know the effect of tobacco use on reproductive health, and I know that the vast majority of young people who use tobacco products start with […]

President Biden’s decision to send cluster bombs to Ukraine is horrifying. They kill civilians when launched and even years later from scraps. The U.K. understands this great threat to civilians in war zones and opposes cluster bombs. Peg Cruikshank Scarborough

One reason for later abortions that I don’t see mentioned, but I would think must be significant, is high school-aged girls who wait too long to reveal their pregnancies to parents. When I was in high school, in the early 1970s, I was close friends with a girl who waited until she was over 20 […]