People hunker down when the bombs are dropping. Why can’t people hunker down when death is at the door? Venturing out for no good reason is license to kill yourself. Wake up, America. Michael Boom, Lewiston

Mandates to reduce COVID-19 spread are about public health, not politics. The group Mainers Against Mask Mandates misrepresents public health facts. It claims the inside of masks are germ-ridden, but isn’t that the point — to stop the mask-wearer’s germs from spreading to other people? They use early CDC statements that masks were unnecessary, before […]

There are about 4,000 miles of electrical corridor in Maine today. We barely notice it. Wildlife moves along it without harm, which is more than can said of our roadways, and yet some among us are convinced an additional 53 miles of corridor constitutes an environmental crisis. It does not. While the “No CMP Corridor” […]

Nobody likes a sore loser. We teach our children to accept defeat with grace. At the end of this year’s game (the presidential election), the referee (the American people) decided that Biden was the winner. Trump, to his surprise, was the loser. The old champion (Trump) had bragged that the only way he could lose […]

After 85 trial and appellate judges — Republican and Democratic — have tossed all the evidence-free lawsuits from their courtrooms, and after the U.S. Supreme Court has declined to rule on the Texas lawsuit, this farce to overturn the election results should have ended. But the president has vowed to fight on, even if all […]

On Sept. 11, 2001, nearly 3,000 Americans died in a terrorist attack. On each of two days last week, over 3,000 Americans succumbed to COVID-19. In the last month the disease has killed about 50,000 Americans. It took almost nine years for 58,000 Americans to die in Vietnam. In the 41 months the United States […]

Vaccines for use against the COVID-19 virus are now being shipped, thanks to the efforts of President Trump and his initiative — Warp Speed — that put the program on an accelerated pace, resulting in Dec. 14’s announcement. This is a public/private partnership where drug companies were advanced $14 billion by the Trump administration to […]

How sad I am about our broken country. We have a lying, despicable, self-absorbed man in the White House determined to destroy our democracy before he leaves office. He is assisted by sycophants and cowards in a political party that surely cannot long continue as a credible moral force. Meanwhile, Congress is totally ineffective and […]

I’m a graduate student at the University of Maine where I’m working on my doctorate in Virtual Archaeology. Throughout my time at UMaine, my focus has shifted from one area to another, but there has always been some aspect of climate change involved. The more I learned, the more I understood how everything is connected, […]

Each year, along with the community Christmas tree lighting, the local Jewish community, as represented by Temple Shalom, lights a community menorah (candelabra). Due to COVID, we will not be lighting the community menorah, as we do not believe it is safe or prudent to do so. In fact, our temple has been closed since […]