Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion

Take local action to help overcome wealth inequality

The national acceleration of economic inequity generates local consequences seen all around us. Our neighbors suffer from the squeezing of their financial resources from income loss and stagnation or lose as employers shift ever larger percentages of health care premiums onto workers. Many are concerned that their children are being bequeathed a future with less […]

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Posted inLetters to the Editor, Opinion

Prosecutors took path of least resistance in trial

Once again, I’m expressing complete dismay in Maine’s judicial system. Criminal investigators using witnesses who look out for only themselves. These are non-credible witnesses with criminal histories. In the trial of Raymond Bellavance, prosecutors secured a guilty verdict from jurors by showing that the law doesn’t need cold, hard evidence to convict; just the words […]