After nearly eight decades of life, I have to wonder what I will miss next. My two cars no longer have keys in order to start. My television doesn’t need an antenna or a cable to have hundreds of channels for me to watch. Now the government has done away with pennies. What would President […]

I was a registered nurse and a certified nurse-midwife for decades at Northern Light Eastern Maine Medical Center. I am very familiar with the work issues that have led to nursing burnout and exhaustion from chronic overwork as described by nurses everywhere. When I saw LD 1639 introduced in the Maine Legislature in 2023, I […]

When will “Society Notebook” return? It was very entertaining. Buell Heminway Phippsburg

I find it disturbing that congressional Democrats and most of the media are focused on finding a “smoking gun” proving that President Trump personally participated in the sexual abuse of underage girls — as if his long association with Jeffrey Epstein weren’t damning enough on its own. Their focus on direct involvement risks missing a […]

On Dec. 14, the New York Times editorial board cried out in alarm over how the Russians and Chinese have outdistanced us in military strength. It blamed what it described as our increasing weakness on our cumbersome military procurement system and preference for expensive, outmoded weapons, and warned that we must rapidly streamline and modernize […]

I am writing this letter to express my deepest fears that this publication would repeatably print a full-page ad about the dissatisfaction out-of-state entities have with Hannaford supermarkets. I say fears because you are inciting violent behavior in unstable people who repeatedly see these false accusations. How can we possibly forget the innocent UnitedHealthcare CEO, […]