I taught European history at the secondary level for 40 years before retiring in 2018. Hannah Arendt, a German scholar and activist who fled the Nazi regime in the 1930s and went on to become one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century, was and will always be one of my greatest inspirations. She […]

A recent letter, “NECEC will help reduce impacts of climate change in Maine” (Dec. 9), completely missed the mark. For example, the very first sentence references your Dec. 6 editorial about a recent climate report put out by the Mills administration as an example of why New England Clean Energy Connect is “needed.” This is […]

I’m a nurse, a very tired (the kind of tired that sleep cannot fix) registered nurse at Maine Medical Center. I have been on overdrive since March, and while I get paid well, I’d like people to know the sacrifices that come with being an empathetic RN during a pandemic. I’ve been the last face […]

What am I missing? I am no legal scholar, but I found it interesting that Phippsburg Select Board memhers Chris Mixon and Julia House believe they don’t have the authority to enforce a mask mandate in public buildings, but they do believe they have the power to override Gov. Mills and the state judiciary. There […]

I am from the Silent Generation. We were born during, or shortly after, the Great Depression and during World War II. We would neither have won the war nor survived the Depression if many people of today had lived at that time. They would have perceived that their rights had been infringed upon with things […]

I have the solution. East to west. Solution to what? How to distribute the vaccine across the nation. Start in Lubec. You cover all of Washington County in a day or two. Move on to Aroostook, Hancock, Penobscot, etc. We could vaccinate the entire state of Maine in a week and all of New England […]

In February, my wife and I finally achieved our long-planned move to Maine. We had a small home built for us (750 square feet) that was highly efficient, and intended to minimize our carbon footprint. No burning of fossil fuels, no woodstove, all electric for us. The first week we moved in, we lost power […]