Everyone likes a good laugh, especially during the holidays, but the PUC’s decision to grant electricity producers a 14 percent increase was anything but funny. With inflation still below three percent, it was absurd to grant such a huge increase, even if natural gas prices are fluctuating and supplies are tight. Natural gas is still […]

Infrastructure is not eternal. It needs maintenance, and a policy promoting infrastructure can be unifying. The president wants (perhaps) to unify the country by building a wall along the southern border between the U.S. and Mexico. That would not work on boat people, who might avail themselves to the 10,000-plus mile coastline; and some people […]

In his column, “Issue in need of action, not denial” (Dec. 9), Elliott Epstein is exactly right. The science regarding climate change and its accelerated cause couldn’t be more objective. • Core ice samples from Greenland and Norway, going back some five million years, provide indisputable evidence that the world’s conversion to carbon fuels (coal […]

Poland Spring Water’s advertisement in a recent Rumford paper was meant to project a positive image. Facts don’t lie, but sometimes the way they are presented is confusing and can distort the truth in a way that misleads many to see only what those presenting the facts wish them to see. It is only good […]

Ranked-choice voting is far superior to the old voting system, in which the candidate with the largest minority won. Under the old voting system, when Mike Michaud and Eliot Cutler ran against Paul LePage, LePage won because Michaud and Cutler split the popular vote. Ranked-choice voting gives the voter more choices. Candidates, to compete, have […]