I’m always amazed when people complain about their Central Maine Power bill. I usually ask if they figure out what they would give up not to have power. I did that on April 4 — figured out what I didn’t have. No phone. No cable. No heat. No Fitbit. No computer. No stair-lift. No power […]

Curtis Cole’s April 9 letter about the value of the Electoral College (“Electoral College provides equality for all states“) is misleading. He points out that the current system was created to “protect our rural interests against urban domination.” True. He fails to point out that it also was created to give extra electoral power to […]

There is more to consider in the regulation of gun laws. The pitiful yellow flag law is mostly concerned with mental illness, but most shootings are about anger and revenge. A red flag law would remove guns if one is a threat to themselves or others. An enforced red flag law would have saved lives […]

Regarding the national popular vote, historical precedence recorded in over 2,000 years of civilizations should shout “caution.” So we shouldn’t move quickly due to perceived exigencies of the moment. The value of democracy is to allow all citizens to have a voice in determining their rulers and laws. Those who wrote the U.S. Constitution reviewed […]

The article about frequency of power outages in rural America, published April 6, blames “climate change.” Many outages are caused by trees/limbs hitting the power lines. What wasn’t mentioned was any association to “human error.” Talking just Maine, the ice storm of 1998 was the last major power line clearing done, so 20 years later […]

Kudos to Central Maine Power’s line crews for the valiant work they performed during this latest snowstorm under severe weather conditions. But let’s talk about the inadequate tree trimming program that CMP has had in place for years. Thousands of trees rise 20, 30 and 40 feet above power lines, and diseased and rotten trees […]