I never imagined that I would be entering the U.S. from a foreign country and feel less safe than in the country I left. However, it’s not just a feeling – for me, it’s a reality. Ontario, with a population of almost 15 million and the fifth largest city in North America, has 50 percent […]

Anyone notice the Portland restaurants calling for vaccine passports are all upscale establishments downtown? I’d wager they’re not having quite the time making payroll as many of their hundred-plus counterparts all across the city. This has been one of the hallmarks of the pandemic: people in positions of comfort speaking broadly for everyone. As was […]

Recently, the Stockholm-based International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance added the U.S. to an annual list of “backsliding” democracies for the first time in their annual report. “A historic turning point came in 2020-21 when former president Donald Trump questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election results in the United States,” the think tank […]

I read about the Biden-Harris Administration Trucking Action Plan and it shows me, once again, how out of touch they are with Main Street USA. First, they have failed to acknowledge that a national test for marijuana must be done now. Second, we have trained many drivers for their commercial driver’s license. President Biden and […]

I drive Interstate 95 from Kennebunk to Bangor often and see more state trooper vehicles from Augusta north (where there is no traffic) than I do from the construction zone in South Portland south to Biddeford (where there is far more traffic). In the past year, I’ve been noticing more and more crazy driving, the […]

I would like to comment on Jerome A. Collins’ Maine Voices commentary on land trusts in the Dec. 21 paper. Mr. Collins speaks only of the tax revenue lost to his community when land is placed into trust. He neglected to highlight that once the land is in trust, it becomes a public asset. I […]

As a co-founder and former board member of Great Works Regional Land Trust and owner of four properties protected by conservation easements, I can speak with some authority that the recently published Maine Voices (Dec. 21) by Jerome A. Collins of Kennebunkport is riddled with errors and misconceptions about land trusts. First, Great Works Regional […]