Re: “Portland street photographer’s book of negatives a picture of nostalgia” (Nov. 8, Page A1): John Duncan’s photographs evoked my memories of the 1970s, when I first moved to Maine and lived across from the skating pond on Deering Oaks. As a pool player and pizza lover, I am also acquainted with the unnamed establishment […]

There appears to be no doubt that people who aren’t vaccinated against COVID-19 are stressing our health care systems and driving up the cost of such services. Health and life insurers are also taking hits as these people increasingly use such benefits. Isn’t it time that unvaccinated people pay more for their medical and life […]

There are many factors at work, but could the fact that there are 62 million Americans who have never seen the light of day because of legalized abortion since 1973 be having an impact on the current lack of workers? Those first victims would be 48 this year. Meredith Kerr North Yarmouth

Mainers, harangued for months by competing interests from afar, chose against our collective long-term best interests while needlessly giving offense to our closest international neighbor (and largest trading partner) and to the commonwealth that spawned Maine and to its many residents who love Maine. Still proud to have been born and raised here, I’m sad […]

A good friend steadfastly disagreed with me when I applauded President Biden’s decision to pull out of Afghanistan a while back. It wasn’t pretty – but there was no pretty way to leave. The point was/is: We’re out. Once again I’m applauding President Biden for remaining cool, calm and collected as the first phase of […]

Sixty-thousand Maine voters publicly put their names and addresses on a public paper, in a public place, putting Question 1 on the ballot. Sixty percent of the people who cast a ballot supported the passage of that question. Over $48 million was spent for advertising opposing the question, all dark money supplied by people who […]

As a nation and a state, we Americans need to put aside petty political differences and distractions and remain focused on solutions to our real “Big Lie” – reliance on fossil fuels, even if its use is tempered with cleaner alternatives, natural gas, diesel and biofuels. These still require combustion and produce C02 and greenhouse […]

Although seldom, if ever, mentioned during all the heated discussion these past months, the 2018 New Hampshire rejection of the proposed Northern Pass transmission line relates to Maine. The New Hampshire route proposed by developers Eversource and Hydro-Quebec was Massachusetts’ first choice. It was not Maine. And the New Hampshire landscape surgery was to be […]