In my opinion, the Aroostook County Republican Committee, has made a very questionable decision in advocating for a fundraiser to pay for a misjudgment by our governor when so many working Mainers are without livable-wage jobs, adequate food, safe, warm housing and health insurance. If these people have discretionary funds that they can donate to […]

There’s a noxious, invasive species spreading through the state called wind power speculators. And they’re ready to quickly spread to any hilltop that can gather the necessary local, state and federal subsidies. They’ve been spotted in many Upper Kennebec Valley communities, where they threaten the local population’s peace and their precarious lifestyles. If you spot […]

If a person takes, or even instigates the taking of, something that doesn’t belong to him or her, from a building that does not belong to them, is that not stealing? Aren’t thieves arrested and jailed anymore? Just wondering. Gloria S. Brann Skowhegan

More and more cuts to state employees? When does it end? I am a state employee with almost 11 years of diligent service and I am the primary breadwinner in my family. I know I don’t have to make legislators aware of the terrible economy, the increase in gas prices or skyrocketing food prices. What […]

Time after time, stories about criminal sentencing tell us that the people who are convicted must pay restitution as part of their sentence. In many cases, we’re talking about people who either weren’t making an honest living to begin with, or were making so little they couldn’t make ends meet. Where are they expected to […]