With our state already suffering a shortage of nurses and nursing faculty, proposed legislation has troubling potential.
Posted inUncategorized
Maine Oyster Festival brings the brine to shore in Freeport
Visitors gathered for a full weekend of oyster tastings and live music, complete with a shucking competition.
Posted inCommunity, Uncategorized
Morin Street reopens following ‘all hands’ Biddeford fire
Multiple fire departments were working to extinguish a building fire in Biddeford, which closed Morin Street on Sunday.
Posted inLetters to the Editor
Those who serve the struggling deserve respect, not abuse | Letter
Staff and volunteers at the Maine Recovery Access Project Center in Augusta spend countless hours supporting some of the most vulnerable members of our community. They show up for people struggling with addiction, hunger and homelessness. They do this work not because it is easy, but because they genuinely care. What’s troubling is instead of […]
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Unfortunately for RFK Jr, a tan is still a sign of damage | Victoria Hugo-Vidal
It would be really great if a ‘solar callus’ existed. It doesn’t.
Posted inLetters to the Editor
I, for one, welcome letters from away | Letter
The more people reading newspapers and writing to newspapers, the better.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
We should be more focused on the quality of Sen. Collins’ votes than the quantity | Opinion
Maine’s senior senator has proven that she either isn’t capable of weighing the facts or that she values party loyalty above all else.
Posted inOp-Eds, Opinion
Don’t we all have a Toy Story to share? | Opinion
It’s important not to lose touch with the whimsy and wonder of childhood.
Posted inLetters to the Editor
The obscenity of Elon Musk’s $1 trillion | Letter
Elon Musk’s recent achievement of $1 trillion net worth (now back to $957 billion) only serves to underline America’s obscene inequality. Compared to Warren Buffet (Forbes’ 10th-richest man, at $150 billion), there’s very little that Musk’s additional $850 billion nets him: private islands, super yachts, private jets and a car collection combined can merely put […]
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Put Trump’s vanity project in perspective | Letter
On the subject of the Great American State Fair, President Trump recently stated: “I am thinking about bringing the Number One Attraction anywhere in the World, the man who gets much larger audiences than Elvis in his prime . . . DONALD J. TRUMP, to take the place of these highly paid, Third-Rate ‘Artists.’” (Sun Journal, […]