Solar panels are fine with a few inches of snow, not feet of it or worse if plows pile it up. And diodes can't melt a half inch of gravel that's there all winter and spring.

But the alternative is that we will need a few hundred miles of sun-tracking motorized panel units that sit on top of concrete foundations, in the median of highways that motorists can crash into, and plows can repeatedly blast and destroy with snow, salt, gravel, and whatever else is on the road.

So it will be $983 bazillion? We should just launch a satellite into space with a few hundred panels on it, and have a really long extension cord that comes back down to Earth.

Beyond teh fact that this would cost $774 bazillion (give or take a gazillion), you can't just put 300 miles of solar panels on the ground. They need to be at an angle to be efficient, especially in a high latitude state like Maine.

Are we going to pay people to just shovel all the snow off after every blizzard? What about when the plows blast and bury the panels- or destroy them with all the gravel?

But please- tell me more about what an awesome idea this is!

100% agree. It's just a lot of "CMP BAD!" because it's (supposedly) an evil, private, foreign-owned company that just cares about money and raises rates for no reason. The idea that some politicians in Augusta will be able to not just take over, but do a better job, is dangerously naive. It will suck, be a lumbering, bureaucratic nightmare that will result in a whole lot of Mainers without power.

I don't care if newspapers die.

I was poking fun at the hypocrisy of many people who, in one instance, applaud a newspaper for doing the "right thing" and cheering them on. But on the other hand, won't do anything to support those papers and reward them for upholding what is right.

Factual reporting is over on a macro level.

Every time you do that, another newspaper reporter dies inside.

HA! I thought the same thing. "Look at this terrific example of morality by these wonderful newspapers! BRAVO!"

(2 secs later...)

"Hey, can someone help me cheat and see this for free, even though these wonderful newspapers are dying? I can't subscribe for $0.20/day."

Please tell me that is painted on velvet!!!

The reporter says Twitter files show "behind-the-scenes efforts by the U.S. intelligence community and politicians to ferret out the kind of fake accounts and misinformation that can easily spread on social media."

Not even remotely true.

When you look at the forecast, shrug, and say "Could be worse."

Frankly, stoicism has always been a Yankee trait, especially with Mainers, but it seems to be becoming a thing of the past as I see more and more posts on this thread.

The guys from Dead River Rough Cut. That film is an absolute perfect embodiment of Mainers, and the most authentic representation to have ever been documented.

And I know the easy answer is red/black flannel or wool, but Dickies work pants are a staple.

If we're talking women, it's usually a non-hoody baby pink sweatshirt with a print of kittens on it playing with blueberries or some shit.

Barr Hill is the choice for Vermont huh...

Coffee brandy is like herpes- there is no good version, just ones that are not as awful as others.

I saw a stat a few years ago that Maine consumers more Allen's than Jack Daniel’s, Jim Beam and Evan Williams- COMBINED! And no other liquor, not gin or vodka, comes close.

And I have never been anywhere else in the country that has shelves stocked with coffee brandy like they do in Maine. Most people don't even know what it is.

I have never understood the fascination with coffee brandy. I don't know how it started or how it grew, but with so many other options out there, Maine attached itself to this swill from Massachusetts.

As they say in Auburn, "Oh mon Dieu!!!"

Yes, it's insane and bizzare that a grown adult is going to show up at people's houses in costume asking for candy, on a day that is just for 8yo children.

Good. Paul Pelosi has a better track record with the market than Warren Buffet.