I’m grateful to 2020-22 Portland Charter Commission members Peter Eglinton and Shay Stewart-Bouley for their very thorough opinion piece (“Commentary: Why we’re opposed to the Charter Commission’s governance proposal,” Sept. 27, 2022). Eglinton and Stewart-Bouley make a strong argument for why they and two other commission members, Dory Waxman and Marpheen Chann, are not in […]

All legislation involves negotiation and compromise, often leaving everyone somewhat dissatisfied because they didn’t get exactly what they wanted. That is certainly the case with President Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act. Even then, what a triumph. Medicare will be able to negotiate some drug prices. At last, some meaningful monies and programs will confront the devastation […]

I must take issue with Diane Loranger’s Sept. 27 letter, headlined in print “Expect a hand up, not handouts, from LePage.” She states that Gov. Mills “wants to give asylum seekers handouts.” Does she understand that asylum seekers want to work but are barred from doing so by our federal government for extended periods of […]

I do not live in Maine, but I love it. I spend a lot of time there. It’s beautiful and so are its people. I am very concerned that people may vote for Paul LePage in November. I was reminded about some LePage facts by a 2016 New York Times article that read, in part: […]

There is one clear choice for senator from Maine Senate District 32 (Arundel, Biddeford, Dayton, Hollis and Lyman). That’s Henry Ingwersen, previously a state representative, who served this area well. Henry is a former educator who understands that our communities are stronger when we make sure that everyone can afford to live and raise families […]

The current efforts in some circles to ban certain books from the Waldoboro School Library sadly remind me of times in recent history when not only books, but ideas were banned, and yes, certain people were banned and put to death because of their ideas or because they were different. It should be remembered that […]

As a member of Christ Episcopal Church of Gardiner, I am keenly aware that our church members have worshiped, sung and prayed for the last 251 years on Wabanaki ancestral land. As a church, we endeavor to be good neighbors to the Wabanaki and all people. The 1980 Settlement Act between the federal and state […]

The climate crisis is causing devastating wildfires, droughts, storms, floods, glacier melts and sea-level rise. It is alarming. What can I, and others, do as individuals to make a difference? One action is to vote to reelect Gov. Mills. Under Gov. Mills, a Democrat, Maine has become a bright spot in the fight against climate […]