In her letter published May 11, Sheila Richardson repeats the familiar mantra that “more gun laws would only limit law-abiding people,” not those who don’t obey the rules (“More mental health support needed, not more gun laws“). To an extent that is true, but even though no one “gun law” will solve the problem of […]

I’m a retired physician and a therapist, and I’m writing in support of LD 178, the effort to reestablish parole in Maine. Although Maine’s incarceration rate is half that of the U.S., it is greater than that of most advanced democracies. This fact is shocking and shameful, and it’s so much more than just a […]

I have two relatives who went to a dentist office (it’ll go unnamed) who were charged, in my opinion, a ridiculous price for work done. First one had a cavity that would have cost him over $300 but, because of his great dental insurance, only cost him $185. The second one had a tooth extraction […]

Mark Gongloff’s Bloomberg opinion piece (“Natural disasters are the new normal,” May 15) painted a powerful picture of the growing costs to our entire society from weather-related disasters that are accelerating with planetary warming, which continues unabated due to continued burning of fossil fuels. The true costs of burning fossil fuels have not been reflected […]