For over 40 years, HEAP has helped homeowners and renters pay heating costs. In a state like Maine, heating homes is a life-or-death matter. In 2024, the HEAP program served 52,210 households statewide — our families, neighbors, co-workers and friends. The Community Services Block Grant (CSBG) is a locally led program and the backbone of […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Tragedy and traffic jam reveal driver’s priorities | Letter
I was absolutely stunned by a recent letter to the editor (“Poor planning made a bad situation worse,” Aug. 28) that seemed to treat the tragic death of Erin Hayne as little more than a nuisance to someone’s commute. The writer, concerned only with being inconvenienced by the closure of Route 302, had the audacity […]
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Toning down language might make Maine a better place | Letter
My letter is in response to Mr. Ernest Lamarre’s letter of Sunday, Sept. 21 (“Politically, Maine isn’t what is used to be“). With all due respect to Mr. Lamarre, I wonder if people with different opinions than his were not referred to as “communists” and “wackos” Maine would be a safer and better all around […]
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Gov. Mills should step back and endorse next generation for Maine Senate | Letter
The state needs fresh leadership in Washington.
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Securing democracy must be our top priority | Letter
I am not focusing on the different political choices we made in the last presidential election; that’s history now. Instead, I’m turning the page and looking ahead with grave concern. I’m frightened by executive actions declared by President Trump, many challenging the Constitution and threatening our democracy. James Madison argued in Federalist 47, “the accumulation […]
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Response to Kirk killing a new form of ‘cancel culture’ | Letter
Charlie Kirk would be rolling over in his grave if he saw the controversy created by his horrible death. He advocated for free speech, no matter how despicable it is, or whether we agreed with it — whatever one’s beliefs. The First Amendment is first because that is how much our Founding Fathers believed in […]
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Prevent future gun tragedies by voting ‘Yes’ on Question 2 | Letter
Please join us Maine voters and vote “Yes” on Question 2. As a Cape Elizabeth resident I am compelled to support this common-sense measure. Keep firearms out of the hands of those who might abuse them. With the Extreme Risk Protection Orders a family can go directly to a court should a loved one be […]
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Maine’s leaders need to put people ahead of polluters | Letter
Big Oil should contribute a share of its profits to a federal climate fund; let’s tell our delegates in D.C.
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Executive orders are not laws | Letter
Executive orders are not laws; John Adams understood the importance of the difference. In a recent letter (“Those angry about ICE forget we are a government of laws,” Sept. 8), regarding the quote from John Adams, “We are a country of laws and not of men,” the writer failed to note that “laws” are created […]
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Grateful for Collins’ column on Charlie Kirk | Letter
Thank you for publishing Steve Collins’ column, “Charlie Kirk was wrong about Maine” (Sept. 16). Using Kirk’s statements from a Maine Civic Action event this summer in Old Orchard Beach, Collins shared the words and sentiments that earned Kirk’s Turning Point USA a position on the Southern Poverty Law Center’s national Hatewatch list. It’s challenging […]