To the Editor: Question #3: Do you favor amending the Constitution of Maine to declare that all individuals have a natural, inherent and unalienable right to grow, raise, harvest, produce and consume the food of their own choosing for their own nourishment, sustenance, bodily health and well-being? Just wondering here. I am not aware of […]

To the Editor: I am writing to give an update on the status of the No CMP Corridor Campaign. Since the referendum has been designated as Question 1 and a YES vote will be required to pass it, I will be referring to the campaign henceforth as the Yes on 1 Campaign to reject the […]

The Food Sovereignty Constitutional Amendment An almost biennial feature of Maine elections is a vote on a constitutional amendment. This year voters have an opportunity to amend the 201 year old document for the 175th time. The topic: An unusual one as its proponents seek to make the state the first in the country to […]

Our motivation for writing the “Energy Matters” column has always been climate change. Period. Mostly, we have tried to address practical issues that might help a typical consumer make rational choices about energy use. For example, we wrote about how heat pumps work and how much money and energy they can save you. We have […]

To the Editor: We are up against a Goliath in Iberdrola, also known as Avangrid, CMP, NECEC, Clean Energy Matters and Partners with Hydro-Quebec as well as many other organizations too numerous to list. The bombardment of ads that project only half truths or are slanted toward a self-serving end only insult the intelligence of […]

To the Editor: Today, nearly 30% of Mainers over the age of 65 are living exclusively off Social Security. Our financial future as a community is grim. For instance, it is a sobering fact that more than 207,000 working Mainers between the ages of 18 and 64 currently have no access to a retirement savings […]

To the Editor: We in Franklin County have always had the right to choose the most qualified candidate as our treasurer. There’s now a proposal to let a few folks choose for us, abolishing our right to elect a treasurer for ourselves. To me this sounds eerily like a current trend in many states to […]

To the Editor: I woke up this morning smiling about an anonymous quote I remembered: “History repeats itself because no one listened the first time around.” I am going to vote yes on Question 1 this November. Why? The Maine legislature passed a bill in 2010 to enact a Maine Energy Corridor using I-95 and […]

A reader of our column recently sent us a video that claims that there is no possibility that renewable energy, specifically wind and solar, can supply our energy needs. It’s narrated by a “Senior Fellow” of the Manhattan Institute, a “free-market think-tank,” and was produced by PragerU, itself a non-profit funded primarily by petroleum industry […]

To the Editor: Paul LePage kicked off his campaign for Maine Governor promising to bring a reign of terror on middle and lower income taxpayers by eliminating the income tax. That means Maine will rely exclusively on the ultra-regressive sales tax, which taxes middle and lower income taxpayers at a much higher rate of their […]