While CMP is mulling over rate hikes (“Our View: CMP rate debate has to be a farsighted one,” Sept. 20, Page A4) to prepare its infrastructure for the future, it might want to consider a glaringly obvious solution. We are suggesting burial of its lines as a preventative measure for avoiding the constant battle every […]
Columnist Bonnie Gould (“Older Maine voters are ready to tip the scales in November,” Page A7) and letter writer Jake Hawkins (“Political mudslinging does not edify voters,” Page A6), both published on Sept. 6, mention many issues Maine voters are concerned about, but neither mentions the issue I am most concerned about: climate change. As […]
You know elections are coming when it’s time to get out the Windex and paper towels for all the mudslinging on our screens. Unfortunately, both parties take part in this political practice because they think it affects the outcome. Perhaps both might try a new strategy of competition for votes by adopting the Michelle Obama […]
As we head into the election cycle for November, we should all follow the advice of the detectives on the old show “Dragnet,” when they asked for “just the facts.” With the Big Lie and all the political disinformation out there, one has to listen to how candidates spin their “truths.” Case in point: Former […]
The right to vote is a cherished right that we Americans hold up to the world as the definitive embodiment of a democratic republic. That being said, it