I really get tired of hearing that high earners don’t pay their fair share of federal income taxes. Currently, the top 1 percent of taxpayers pay approximately 40 percent of all federal income taxes, according to the Tax Foundation, while the top 5 percent pay about 60 percent. I’m sure that many of the other […]

The beginning of the planned destruction of Enchanted Township, on Spencer Road near Jackman, has begun. What once was a beautiful green forest with mountains and hills in the distance is now a stripped-to-the-bare-ground corridor. White trucks, with workers from Wisconsin and other states (rarely a Maine vehicle), travel Spencer Road in clouds of dust […]

On my first night in Maine, I saw the most captivating sunset that I’ve ever seen. I could smell the wildflowers in the warm breeze as I watched the sky turn pink over the hills. The experience instantly reminded me why I work to protect wild places, especially the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The Arctic […]

Re: “Southern Maine retailer gets caught up in lawsuit over smiling whale logos” (Aug. 17): Allen and Nancy Collins opened a high-end men’s clothing store in West Hartford, Connecticut, back in the 1960s. Al summered on Nantucket and there met Nan, who was a descendant of the Coffin whaling family and a Nantucket native. Their […]

I read with interest about the new group that has sprung up to support the Maine Department of Transportation’s effort to replace the Frank J Wood Bridge connecting Topsham and Brunswick (“New group emerges in debate over Frank J. Wood bridge replacement,” Aug. 9). A massive span is planned to replace the green bridge that […]