I’m responding to Joe Charpentier’s great article on heat pumps (Nov. 16). It has always amazed me that weatherizing was not a prerequisite of purchasing heat pumps through the Efficiency Maine program. We have updated our insulation, doors and windows, furnaces two or more times in our old house. The products available today are vastly […]

You can really tell that Zohran Mamdani’s election to lead the city of New York has really got people in a full-blown tizzy by reading letters like Kevin Landry’s (“Democrats take a page from Orwell’s ‘Animal Farm,” Nov. 16). Landry reels from hyperbole to hysteria as easily as Donald Trump navigates a golf course during […]

Earlier this month, Maine voters resoundingly rejected tampering with voting rights in a nationwide election outcome the Mississippi Democratic Party called “a historic rebuke of extremism.” Days later, Sen. Angus King and others turned their backs on the overall threat Donald Trump’s regime constitutes to our democratic republic.  King argued at a Nov. 9 presser […]

Reuters has confirmed that Israeli military lawyers warned of evidence supporting war crimes charges in Gaza, and that U.S. officials knew this yet continued to supply weapons. That should horrify every citizen who believes in the rule of law. I call on Maine’s delegation — Sens. Collins and King and Rep. Pingree — to demand […]

The letter by Ann Rankin in the Nov. 4 edition (“Republican disinformation has gone way beyond spin“) was excellent and a meaty summary of the administration’s unruly attempts at undermining our democracy. She concludes by interestingly pleading for a new word for “lies,” one that more strongly and uniquely denotes the truly damaging aspects of […]