As a Portland resident, I do have visible access to the Portland Harbor. I have noticed a big reduction in oil tankers arriving. I understand that most oil that does come in gets pumped to Montreal. But some does stay here. There used to be at least two tankers per day and some at berth […]

While lotteries may be good for some things, clearly that was not the case with Portland’s Eastern Promenade food trucks, when four businesses were initially excluded from a location popular with their customers. (“After food truck furor boils over, city adds spots on Eastern Prom” June 2) I congratulate the city manager for seeing the […]

In some states, like Texas, you can legally buy a gun and ammunition without a background check, be at least 18, and without a waiting period. Would the outcome be different in the tragic shooting in Texas by an 18-year-old if the ammunition he wanted for his AR-15 rifle he just bought legally had been […]

During this time around Memorial Day one is reminded that there is a cost to living in a free country. The number of Americans who have died in wars since, and including WWI, is about 624,000 – a period of a little over 100 years. This figure doesn’t include other casualties. There are other costs […]

Ted Bennett is spot on with his June 10th comments regarding student loan relief. The burden of debt doesn’t magically “go away” when any loan is “canceled.” In the infamous words of American economist Milton Friedman, “There’s no such thing as a free lunch.” Gary LaPerriere Sanford

The House Select Committee to investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol is currently revealing the financial, political and moral fleecing of America caused by Donald Trump’s Big Lie. Trump has grifted roughly $250 million for his Official Election Defense Fund, has poisoned civil society, inflaming racist hate groups with Replacement Theory rhetoric, and fractured […]

This is meant for the kids in school living in fear. As a grandfather with 17 grandkids, many of them in school, I can empathize with your fear. But let me tell you what real fear feels like for politicians. Real fear, for Republican office holders, is not being reelected. If they say that Joe […]

I just wrote a letter to Sen.  Susan Collins with the following question and request. The question: Our elected officials are supposed to work for us, the citizens who elected them and pay their salaries, not the NRA or other lobbying groups or funding sources, aren’t they? Statistics from reliable polls show that the majority […]