People should encourage the good stewardship of our legislators in Congress to legislate for privacy across all platforms. As our stewards, may they legalize default privacy across the internet. Individuals can then set the terms of agreement to suit their interests. Susan Dorman, Bryant Pond

Another Collins disappointment. It’s been more than saddening to watch Susan Collins, the U.S. Senate’s “most bipartisan senator,” attack the voting rights bill currently under consideration. At this time when democracy in the United States has never been more threatened and endangered, her statements that voter suppression in our country is nonexistent is very telling. […]

Last Thursday night around 10, we discovered an astonishing disaster unfolding in front of our home. A water main had broken on the road, and the vast majority of water gushing out of the pipe ended up in our yard and basement. There was nearly five feet of water, and rising fast. Many folks responded. […]

Obeisance is the French word for “obey.” In a way it carries even more weight in that category than its English peer. So regarding the immediate speeches of Republican leaders to the events in our Capitol last year, the word hovers over their follow-up actions since then, and in nearly all cases to their “corrective” […]

Recent polls have shown that both sides of the political spectrum fear for the future of our country. Thank heaven there is one thing that both sides agree on: fear. But the nature of our fear helps reveal the deep polarization of our citizens. One side says it fears that the country is headed toward […]

There is much todo in the press these days about “voting rights” and “voter suppression,” ad infinitum, for which the “evil Republicans” are (of course) entirely responsible. The solution — at the time of this writing it is Jan. 7, there are 297 days between now and the end of October, and the mid-terms are […]

It was incredibly relieving and reassuring to read statements this week from Rev. Jane Field and the Maine Council of Churches encouraging Maine’s faith communities to step up and promote COVID-19 vaccination (“Maine Council of Churches urges virtual-only worship services to slow surge of COVID-19,” Jan. 4).Supporting public health measures is one of the simplest […]

With the demise of Build Back Better in Congress, the Senate has an opportunity to draft a better reconciliation bill.I’d like to recommend one improvement to the next bill: Leave out the provision that transforms the National Labor Relations Act into a punitive law rather than a remedial law for the first time in its […]

The year 2021 witnessed the piercing grip of the aristocracy’s talon clench tighter, in my opinion. These are the powerful elite class that control the media, academia, Silicon Valley, politics and Hollywood. In my opinion, they want to control the narrative without discourse. Freedom of speech and dissent used to be embedded in our country’s […]

Maybe there is something in the aquifer and well water in Wales that prompted two fairly intelligent men, Randy Greenwood and Isaiah Lary, to not get the COVID-19 vaccines. Greenwood contracted the virus and was hospitalized, put on a ventilator, and feared for his life, according to an article in this very paper. Science overwhelmingly […]