For more than 25 years, Bridges Home Services, a division of Spectrum Generations, has provided in-home care and community support to older and disabled residents in central Maine. Our staff of 200 spends roughly 180,000 hours each year caring for our patients, who include your parents, grandparents, family members and neighbors. As Maine’s population ages, […]

My husband, Karl, and I have worked in business for many years; Karl was also a Maine state senator for eight years. We are very concerned about the proposed acquisition of Central Maine Power and Versant by the state. Way beyond the likely $13 billion purchase price, our electric grid and transmission lines need great […]

A consumer-owned power utility is like a public school, library or park. Local elected officials make sure that the needs of the utility’s owners – you and me, citizens and consumers – are met. This close connection between community and utility is what makes publicly owned power companies so much more generous than their investor-owned […]

The state of Maine in suffering from lottery mania. This $1 million vaccination lottery is money misspent. The same $1 million could be split into 100 x $10,000 or, even better, 200 x $5,000. I have seen a few customers who received money. A few months after purchasing a few guitars and other items, plus […]

In response to syndicated Washington Post columnist Megan McArdle’s op-ed on tax laws (“Think twice about altering tax laws to soak the rich,” June 11, Page A13): Leo Tolstoy asked this question: How much land does a man need? The ultimate answer was: Oh, about 6 feet by 6 feet by 3 feet. I ask: […]

When I say that I support Nasreen Sheikh-Yousef’s right to speak her mind, I mean just that. I will not tell her what to say, how and where to say it, tell her what she means or what she meant to say. And yet, many in our city – including private citizens, public officials and […]

As the child of a smoker, I know the destruction that smoking can cause. My father began smoking menthol cigarettes at 11 years old. He stopped when he experienced his first bout of laryngeal cancer in 1974, when I was 3 years old. In 1996, my dad informed me he had a cancer recurrence, which […]