We Mainers are fortunate to have a voting and election system that is fair and easily accessed, and has been faithfully and accurately counted – and true to “the vote of the people.” It is also virtually fraud-free. In other parts of America, this is either not so or is in danger of being lost, […]

I am a quality engineer, and I have been extremely pleased, many a time, that my vehicle is equipped with a “safety device” not often extolled: the thermometer that senses the outside temperature. Driving this past week or so, from New Hampshire to Maine, in the rain at 36 degrees, sleet at 34 degrees and […]

Markos Miller (Maine Voices, Dec. 31) was so right when he said we need to recalculate eligibility and need for affordable housing in Portland. The U.S. Census pegs the average median household income in Portland at $60,647 in 2019. Yet housing developers are permitted to use the median income for a family of four as […]

Today’s editorial (“Our View: Doctors peddling COVID misinformation have no place on legislative panel,” Jan. 5) says it all. I didn’t realize how much money the anti-vaccine doctors were making by pushing prescriptions for ivermectin and/or hydroxychloroquine. You also mention the “anti-vaccine charlatan Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,” a very sick individual in his own right. […]

One year ago Thursday, in the midst of a global pandemic, the United States endured a failed putsch. Four rioters died that day. Seven hundred rioters and counting have been charged. Their friends, family, neighbors, co-workers, lovers and classmates rang the FBI tip lines off the hook to tattle on them. They lost freedom. They […]

Re: “Our View: For climate, safety, we should build a better transportation system” (Dec. 17): It is a lovely thing that Maine is expecting upward of $1.3 billion from the infrastructure bill to modernize our state’s roadways. As the editorial suggested, at the rate of 39 miles per year for either new or reconstructed roadways, […]

“Every cloud has a silver lining” – though few may be able to see it, the current omicron surge may have its own silver lining. Omicron, being highly transmissible and less virulent than the virus’s previous incarnations, could be sowing the seeds of its own potential demise. Mother Nature may have allowed us to catch […]

In her Jan. 1 letter to the editor, responding to Richard Bedard’s Dec. 28 Maine Voices column promoting nuclear power as a zero-carbon energy source, Sigrid Olson states no new nuclear plants should be built until there is a national solution for safe disposal of nuclear waste. This reaction is an example of letting the […]