In rebuttal: John Nicholas: Ads correct about corridor’s forest impact

Ads about the clean energy corridor’s forest impact are correct. Since there are minimal benefits for Maine from the New England Clean Energy Connect project, supporters have resorted to incorrect, disparaging descriptions of the forest around the proposed transmission line corridor in Segment 1 from the Canadian border to the Kennebec Gorge. A recent letter […]

Michael Boom: Reject efforts to restrict voting rights

Republicans realize that the only way to stay in power is to restrict the voting rights of the average American. Republicans are exceptional people unto themselves, and the sooner we can all get on board with this delusion the sooner we can all allow the Republicans to rule the roost. I apologize for my sarcasm, […]

Richard Anderson: Corridor wouldn’t cross ‘untouched wilderness’

After two and a half years reviewing the Clean Energy Corridor, the Maine Department of Environmental Protection found that “the area that Segment 1 (of the corridor) would traverse is not untouched wilderness, but instead mostly consists of intensively managed commercial timberland,” (Findings of Fact and Order, page 54, May 11, 2020). My career as […]

Cartoon for Wednesday, April 14

Kasie Kolbe: Proposed cable tax a bad deal for Maine towns

Policymakers in Augusta should not be passing any legislation that increases Mainers’ monthly bills, while communities like Lisbon continue to deal with the economic toll of the COVID-19 pandemic. But that is exactly what legislation pending before the Maine Legislature would do by implementing a statewide cable tax.

Danielle Blair: Support LD 360, reduce barriers to recovery from substance use disorder

Substance use disorder does not discriminate. Adults who are currently eligible for targeted case management comprise only a fraction of adults living with substance use disorder in Maine. Every person with MaineCare benefits and a diagnosis of substance use disorder who is seeking approved treatment services should be eligible for targeted case management.

Cartoon for Tuesday, April 13

Bob Mennealy: Golden should have supported stimulus bill

I strongly disagree with both Rep. Jared Golden’s vote against the latest stimulus bill, and Elliot Epstein’s March 28 column defending the vote. If either of them cannot clearly see the damage the COVID-19 pandemic has caused the economy here in Maine, and to individual households as well, I suggest that they look more closely. […]

David Theriault: LifeFlight story creators ‘nailed it’

Kudos to Mark LaFlamme and Russ Dillingham for their excellent collaboration in the Sun Journal’s Sunday paper (April 11) on LifeFlight’s new helicopter. As a helicopter nut for over a half a century and an admirer of LifeFlight, I was like a kid on Christmas when I opened the “B” section to this spread. Great […]

The education of Leonard Pitts Jr. by Stan ‘The Man’ Lee

“I think the good in us could so outweigh the bad in us if we could just get beyond the fear; that’s what Stan taught me, and that’s what I still believe.”