1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (303+ words) Carl Bucciantini lives in Greene and serves as the volunteer congressional liaison for AARP Maine. Maine’s population is the oldest in the nation and Mainers age 50 and above turn out to vote in greater numbers than any other age range....

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (668+ words) Jason Cook is an educator, originally from New Brunswick and now based in Edmonton, Alberta, who has lived and worked across Eastern, Western and Northern Canada. Vice President JD Vance came to Brewer on Monday to say Canada cannot win…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (257+ words) Centralmaine.com You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. With a Centralmaine.com subscription, you can gift 5 articles each month. It looks like you do…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (183+ words) My book, “Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice,” has just been banned in Texas. That makes three states — Rhode Island, Texas and Tennessee — where the true story of a 15-year-old girl, whose bravery sparked the civil rights movement, has been pulled from…...

3+ week, 9+ hour ago   (313+ words) Valerie Kazarian of South Portland is a retired community planner and business owner. She has experience in a broad range of social services and policy interests. In his Aug. 12 column, “Confronting the architecture of misery,” Jon Calame, sparked by two…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (396+ words) Pete Begley served 32 years in the New York City Fire Department and retired as a battalion commander in 2002 after the conclusion of the rescue and recovery operations after the World Trade Center attacks. He now lives in Morristown, New York....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (544+ words) Standing in front of a semicircle of cement mixers at an Auburn construction company on Monday, House Speaker Mike Johnson cast this year’s election as one “between common sense and crazy.” Then he claimed that former Maine Gov. Paul LePage…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (56+ words) In the Aug. 2 Maine Sunday Telegram, Cynthia Dill claims Susan Collins is a feminist’s best investment. Her entire op-ed makes this claim based on Collins’ definition of “woman.” However, denying transgender women their rights is not enough to make Collins…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (591+ words) Douglas Rooks has been a Maine editor and columnist for 41 years. His biography of Gov. Ken Curtis, “Transformational,” is now available. He welcomes comment at [email protected]. Passenger rail service in Maine scored its first big success since Amtrak trains…...