Your May 15 piece on North Atlantic right whales offered promising news about this year’s calving season (“Can a baby boom save the right whale — and Maine’s lobster industry?”). But as someone who has spent decades working to protect marine mammals, I’d caution against relying on this season’s numbers as a reason to ease […]
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Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Shameful Trump fund requires Republican intervention | Letter
The American taxpayer needs to be aware that the Trump administration has created a $1.776 billion “fund” for “wronged” allies of the president, after he agreed to discontinue a lawsuit against the IRS. This is problematic. The approval of this settlement comes directly from the president himself and the settlement is funded with taxpayer dollars. […]
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Greed is pricing Mainers out of vacationing in Maine | Letter
All of a sudden, our only option is to stay home.
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Young Maine voters should back Nirav Shah | Letter
After the war in Iran began, my teacher asked why the conflict was not being discussed among my peers. Today, political debates are rarely initiated by students and this shift exposes a wider problem among our youth: a significant decline in civil discourse. Students hesitate to speak about their political beliefs, fearing social ostracization. Many […]
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NYT interview made me a Platner supporter | Letter
I recently watched a lengthy interview with Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Graham Platner by the New York Times’ Lulu Garcia-Navarro. I have been a supporter of Gov. Mills for this seat and reluctant to get on the Platner bandwagon. After the Times interview, I am convinced he is the correct choice for Maine. Platner […]
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Power to the perimenopausal | Letter
While eating properly is important, strength training transformed my life.
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A Republican president is expensive for America | Letter
The last two Republican presidents — George W. Bush and the current occupant of the White House — have down four things: cut taxes for the morbidly wealthy; blow our country’s debt into the stratosphere with the same unnecessary tax cuts for people who don’t need them; start a completely unnecessary and insanely expensive war in the […]
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Jordan Wood will secure access to women’s reproductive care | Letter
I am a first-year student at Bates College, and I am proud to support Democratic candidate Jordan Wood, running for Congress in Maine’s 2nd District. As an 18-year-old woman with fewer rights than my mother had at my age, I’m deeply concerned about reproductive healthcare and justice. As someone who hopes to have children in […]
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Trump’s IRS deal is a new low | Letter
Arguably, President Trump is the most corrupt president in U.S. history. He certainly is the most corrupt president in my 74 years. In addition to his sale of White House memorabilia, his cryptocurrency corruption, his “reallocation” of $1.25 billion of our money for his Board of Peace, the “pay to play” oligarchs who surround him, […]
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Susan Collins no longer represents Maine | Letter
Why is Sen. Susan Collins so silent? President Trump has established an unconstitutional slush fund to pay supporters; he takes gifts from Qataris and others; he has enriched himself by $4 billion; he enables his sons and son-in-law to profit on government contracts; he obstructs the release of the full Epstein file trove as required by […]