To the Editor: Seventy thousand hard-working Mainers can’t afford health coverage. That’s the bad news. When they seek emergency room services, the rest of us pay, or hospitals add debt. Maine taxpayers have sent $1 billion to Washington that is allocated to states expanding Medicare. We add over $300 million to this outflow every year. …
To the Editor: For seven years, I have been leading the charge to change the status quo in Augusta. But the legislature won’t make the tough decisions that are needed to move Maine from poverty to prosperity. This opens the door for socialists to push their agenda through the ballot box. These citizen referendums punish …
To the Editor: Almost three months after the MDOT expressed a willingness to sell the ferry terminal property to the town with no strings attached for $3.5 million, the Town Council will vote to sign an amendment to the option agreement to include that term. The town can still take the huge risk of buying …
To the Editor: Donald Trump is constantly demonstrating that he is unfit to be president. One does not need to look far to find examples. He denies global warming and encourages fossil fuel production. He prefers to withdraw from hard-won international agreements, such as the Paris emissions accord and the Iran nuclear deal. He has …
To the Editor: Frenchman Bay empties and refills twice a day, in both directions, right in front of Bar Harbor, the bay’s bottleneck. The bay is a large but enclosed body of water and shoreline mudflats intensely fished for lobsters, crabs, mussels, clams and scallops and there are aqua-farms growing mussels and oysters at the …
To the Editor: Once again during the last few weeks, Mainers held their breath while the Senate debated health care legislation that would affect hundreds of thousands of us. The bill in question, known simply as “Graham-Cassidy” after the two senators who drafted it, was not made public until the 11th hour and, it turns …
To the Editor: The Republican-controlled Congress has, once again, shown their complete disregard for more than half the population of the United States. Women can now be denied birth control by their employers for any reason (“religious” or “moral”) and then because of lack of reproductive freedom, the low-income children that result will be not …
To the Editor: Seven Republican governors across the U.S. have expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. Tweny-four other states have also elected to do so. These state leaders understood that healthy lives and the quality of life for many children and their grandparents were at stake. Governors could see their rural hospitals struggling to …
To the Editor: It is with disappointment and sadness we announce that Wild Iris Farm will no longer be offering downtown carriage service. In the six years we have been operating in Bar Harbor, we have witnessed an exponential increase in the number of automobiles, delivery trucks, transportation vans and tour buses in the downtown …
To the Editor: I enjoy reading the Street Beat section in the Islander. My impression is that it is intended as a fun, light-hearted commentary on things of local interest … favorite reads, hikes, movies, restaurants, etc. It gives us person-in-the-street opinions, expressed in a few sentences. The question asked in the Sept. 28 issue …
