Well, what do you know. Donald Trump finally did the right thing. He shut the hell up, encouraged his supporters to flood the polls and stayed away from Virginia. By keeping his powerful big political butt out of this week’s elections in Virginia, the ex-president actually made a huge and positive contribution to the devastating […]

Our elected representatives in Washington produce bad ideas like cows produce methane. But if Congress really wants to do something to make the lives of Americans better – and remember, I said “if” – I have an idea. Not only would this idea garner significant bipartisan support, it would score massive political points without sowing […]

We write in response to the October Times Record article about Freeport’s “Big Indian” (“With new owners, ‘Big Indian’ statue to remain in Freeport — for now,” Oct. 13). We hear John Bear Mitchell who says that the statue is “disrespectful” to the Maine tribes. We find the statue’s presence to be an outdated reflection […]

LGBTQ people in rural places and small towns are often ignored in the larger conversation surrounding queer life and culture. Even with these omissions, Pride celebrations in those locations are sweeping the nation, often encountering initial resistance. As a transgender person from Central Appalachia and a doctoral candidate who studies rural transgender media activism, I […]

Daylight saving time ends in the U.S. and Canada on Nov. 7, 2021, and most of us will be setting our clocks back an hour. There is a long-running debate about the benefit of the time change, given how it disrupts humans’ circadian rhythms, causing short-term stress and fatigue. Another risk accompanying the time change […]

It is well past the Ides of October and here in the northeast our annual descent steepens; many of us now rise in darkness and head home in twilight. Even as the trees pulse scarlet and yellow, even as the sky is often achingly blue, we feel an inward turn; we tend toward hunker. All […]

The Great Bridge Battle I have a recurring nightmare of driving over the Frank J. Wood Bridge from my house in Topsham to have dinner at a Brunswick restaurant and not being able to return home because my high-calorie entree has put me over the latest weight limit. I may be the sole resident of […]

Higher prices are a symptom of the pandemic.