Isn’t it odd how the same politicians who complain that we regulate businesses and corporations too much are not shy about regulating individual citizens’ behavior.

I just wanted to write to convey my support for L.D. 1059, which will reverse a 2012 Act, L.D. 1085, which put leniency in laws regarding open pit-mining and mountain top removal in Maine.

I read the newspaper article about hospital costs, and I think it should matter a great deal to patients what hospitals charge, because at the end of the day it determines how expensive insurance costs are.

I learned recently that the new hospital is requesting Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design certification.

When you hear the phrase mass customized learning, think “new math” back in the ’70s, “whole language” from the late ’80s to ’90s, more recently “everyday math” and now “common core.” All controversial programs that have already or will soon be shown to be abject educational failures. Nothing in this new program is evidence-based. Asia and Europe do not use this. Go to the top colleges in the Northeast and ask these world class students where they were educated — not in countries where education even remotely resembles this mass customized mediocrity. Negative changes are already occurring in the classroom. Classrooms are chaotic; students are not encouraged to excel, they are taught only to meet a basic standard; the online resources children are forced to use are substandard and are poor substitutes for a knowledgeable, experienced teacher. Our district has these experienced teachers, and they are even more upset with mass customized mediocrity plan than the parents and students are.