Maine voters still live in a darkened room called the closed primary. In a 2014 New York Times op-ed, Sen. Chuck Schumer urged America to adopt a top-two open-primary system. Sen. Joe Baldacci is sponsoring a top-two open-primary bill in Maine, L.D. 1121. It’s truly democracy in action! In an op-ed in the Bangor Daily […]

Your excellent March 28 editorial, “Our View: Transit plan lays out route for future growth” (Page D2), demonstrates the need for a transportation plan for the whole state if we are to avoid sprawl and keep the quality of life people love in Maine. There are two vital, forward-looking initiatives being heard this year by […]

As a Maine citizen, I am very proud of the engagement of our voters and their high rates of participation in elections, even in the most challenging of times. I believe we can further encourage and support Maine citizens’ engagement and participation by adopting an online voter registration system, proposed in recently introduced legislation. In […]

The piece of land we call home is truly magical. We have watched life unfold here before our eyes. One day old fawns, learning how to run with their moms. Canadian geese bringing their babies to the pond to learn how to swim, in 24 hours they are off on their life’s adventure. It is […]

One of the things that I most love about the state of Maine is its beautiful forests. I love to go hiking and cross-country skiing in these forests – the same forests that the Central Maine Power corridor would cut through. The loss of this pristine land would be devastating for me and many other […]

Re: “Letter to the editor: To prevent drowning, stimulus money better spent on life vest than on tattoos” (March 30): Tuesday’s letters to the editor included a response to a March 22 story that mentioned a young man who planned to use his stimulus money to buy a motorcycle and tattoos for the top of […]

I was not surprised by Sen. Ted Cruz’s response to calls for gun control legislation after the Colorado mass shootings, complaining that “every time there’s a shooting, … this (Judiciary) Committee gets together and proposes a bunch of laws that would do nothing to stop these murders.” All I could think was, what law has […]

For whatever reason, we Mainers say “no” a lot. I urge my fellow Pine Tree State residents to say “yes” to green hydropower and the New England Clean Energy Connect. Hydropower is hardly some new, experimental concept. Maine has a great history with hydropower. In fact, we have the most hydropower of any state east […]