I live on Iffley Street, a one-block-long street running in between Belfort and Verrill streets in the Riverton area. Since moving in three years ago, we wondered why Unitil, the public utility natural gas provider for Portland, did not finish coming down Belfort Street, round the corner on Iffley and continue up Verrill Street. According […]

As was stated in the Aug. 3 lead editorial (“Our View: Voting Rights Act needs attention now”), Maine Sen. Susan Collins voted with all the rest of the Senate Republicans to filibuster the For the People Act, keeping it from coming forward for debate in the U.S. Senate. This vote is shameful, and a blatant […]

Thanks to the hard work of Sen. Susan Collins and Rep. Jared Golden, Maine loggers finally have access to $200 million in COVID relief funds promised to them seven months ago. This aid designated specifically for their industry is a historic first for timber harvesters and haulers. Although the Loggers Relief Act, authored by Sen. […]

As we all take witness to the testimony on Capitol Hill from the police who put their lives on the line to protect our senators and members of Congress from domestic terrorists, the Republican Party can no longer claim to be the “law and order” party. In fact, the greatest tragedy of Jan. 6 is […]

I am saddened that the Republican Party, for the most part, has chosen to embrace and perpetuate the lie that the 2020 presidential election was somehow stolen from former President Donald J. Trump. The Republican leadership has gone as far as to threaten their own people with censure and loss of committee assignments for not […]

Thank you for your Aug. 3 editorial, “Our View: Voting Rights Act needs attention now,” on the desperate need to protect voting rights and election administration from extreme Republican legislatures and governors. We are truly in danger of losing our democracy. Thank you also for pointing out the sorry role of our own Sen. Susan […]

Tarlan Ahmadov, president of the Azerbaijan Society of Maine, publicly questions United States aid to Armenia (Letter to the editor, July 31). He doesn’t mention that on Sept. 27, 2020, during a worldwide pandemic, Azerbaijan launched an unprovoked attack on the civilian Armenian population of Nagorno-Karabakh. Banned white phosphorous, cluster munitions and ISIS mercenaries were […]

Workers across the country are hoping for the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act; S.420) to be passed in the Senate and then signed by President Biden. If the PRO Act passes, this would be the most significant worker empowerment legislation to happen since the Great Depression. The pandemic exposed conditions tolerated by […]