Letter
2021
Artists sought refuge from pandemic by returning to Maine, and found opportunity
Creative natives who had gone off to careers in big cities are seeing the state through new eyes upon coming home.
Jim Fossel: Parties challenged to recruit 2022 Maine State House hopefuls
Personal attacks, partisanship, Augusta gridlock and intraparty squabbles all discourage would-be candidates.
Owners of Maine’s carbon-sponge forests asked to do more to blunt climate change
Two separate efforts are underway to maximize carbon absorption, one for smaller landowners and the other for forest industry heavyweights.
Maine just had one of the darkest weeks of the pandemic and winter is coming: What’s next?
National infectious disease experts say the only thing to count on is the virus’s unpredictability.
J.P. Devine: Not coming back
Reincarnation, a heavy word loaded with meaning, is on J.P. Devine’s mind as he tiptoes around death.
Markets that pay woodland owners to store carbon are complex, controversial
Maine, the nation’s most heavily forested state, has been an early participant in so-called carbon offset markets.
What’s up in October: Changing skyscape is spectacular, like the brilliant fall landscape
Summer constellations are slowly sinking into the western sky as winter constellations are already beginning to rise in the east.