President Trump’s blocking of the transition to President-elect Biden’s incoming administration is severely damaging our national security and every day that passes without coordination between the administration’s, is causing more and more people to die of COVID-19. What is most shocking is the silence of the Republicans in Congress. Yes, a few have admitted that […]

It is apparent to me that our newly apparently elected senator is attempting to placate her Republican base by referring to our president-elect, Joe Biden, as the “apparent president-elect,” not once, but several times. What is “apparent” about our president-elect? A six million vote lead should, I would expect, be enough to prove his election […]

If you are choosing not to ask people to wear a face covering, then you are part of the virus transmission problem, not a part of the solution. There is only one right answer from a person not wearing a face covering: “I have a medical condition.” If you have a whole building of people […]

Yes! Last Sunday’s editorial rightly homes in on the need to train workers for green-energy jobs in Maine that exist today – and that we know will exist in the future in this growing energy sector (“Our View: Green power generates jobs for Maine, not just electricity,” Nov. 15). You know who builds and maintains […]

A post-pandemic federal stimulus package (“Report links Maine’s economic recovery, clean energy,” by Tux Turkel, Nov. 10, Page A1) could be just the ticket for the other crisis upon us, namely climate change. That’s if the funds go toward quickly cutting CO2 emissions. That’s what must happen. The Maine Climate Council’s Climate Action Plan proposes […]

Dr. Nirav Shah, director of the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention, has indicated he doesn’t think a shutdown would be effective because our COVID-19 upsurge is related to private gatherings, but shutdowns are also effective as a messaging tool. The level of restrictions is an indicator by the government of how serious they […]

Re: Roman Catholic Bishop Robert Deeley’s defiance of the governor’s COVID orders (Nov. 11): His arrogance, his lack of plain common sense, make this Catholic embarrassed and angry. How in the face of rapid COVID up-tick in Maine, greatly increased numbers of people infected, can the leader of our church recommend his flock risk their […]

It was a brisk, cold morning in November, and the clocks were all striking 13. A paraphrase from Orwell’s opening sentence of his novel “1984,” the most frightening book I have ever read. Apologies to Stephen King. I never believed we would see it in the U.S., but I thank Donald Trump and his willfully […]