Re: “Commercial solar industry on track to spend $540 million in Maine by 2027, study shows” (Aug. 15): Let’s just not talk about the number of jobs that installing utility solar would bring to the state. Yes, that would result in a short-term spike in good-paying jobs. Let’s look at the long term of 25 […]

It was reported Aug. 6 (Page A1) that half of Maine’s counties are experiencing a severe drought – even including the Maine coastline. One wonders why, when the last batch of water resources in several counties was sold to Nestle for Poland Spring, no one thought to include in the contract for Nestle to start […]

Re: The letter by Warner Price published Aug. 12 (“Mar-a-Lago search is about law,” Page A6): Well said! Thank you for shining a light on this latest story of our 45th president. I would add that before the Mar-a-Lago search, federal investigators attempted to retrieve highly classified documents that Donald Trump improperly removed from the […]

Late last month the city of Portland used a new policy to justify evicting homeless people living in Deering Oaks. People with tents were given 24 hours by the police to move out. When those with nowhere else to go ignored the directive, the police moved in and swept through the park, taking down tents […]

As a registered nurse and mother, I know good health allows each person to function well and enjoy our many natural resources for a fulfilling life in Maine. Regular medical and dental health care foster good health, and Gov. Mills’ expansion of MaineCare gave over 95,000 Mainers medical insurance, while her actions made dental care […]

Your bold headline declares the Inflation Reduction Act “a Biden triumph” (Aug. 13, Page A3) when the legislation is actually a triumph for political payoffs. The only way the bill passed was by paying off Sen. Joe Manchin with a pipeline for one of his biggest contributors and paying off Sen. Kyrsten Sinema by removing […]

While the initial furor over the search of Donald Trump’s residence has subsided (it appears there could be substantial reasons for the search and that it yielded highly classified documents), I am disappointed that no Republican leader has stepped forward to defend the Department of Justice and Attorney General Merrick Garland as independent of political […]

Stephen King was recently on Yahoo Entertainment talking politics (on former President Donald Trump). Mr. King in recent years has taken to doing this quite often. Why folks successful in their careers then gaining world recognition for such think we care one second about their political views is beyond me. Besides life experiences and reading […]