My wife and I have been visiting Maine, leaf peeking, for 22 years. We spend a great deal of money and eat lots of lobster. Red’s Eats in Wiscasset and Harraseeket Lunch & Lobster in Freeport are among our favorites. This year we rented a cottage near Harraseeket, as it is short drive to L.L. […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Patients mourn loss of Fairfield eye center | Letter
And then there were two. Has Maine found the golden ticket to quality healthcare? Are we having a “Matrix” moment where reality is no longer logical and fewer qualified providers in the state are better than more? With the unexplained closing of Fairfield’s Maine General Eye Center (yes, a generic letter was sent to patients but […]
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Platner could not have stayed on | Letter
I’m proud to be a Democrat. While Republicans continue to bow to Donald Trump and accept his transgressions — allegations of rape, sexual assault and constant lies — Democrats have drawn a line in the sand over Graham Platner. Many Maine Democrats continued to support Platner while multiple skeletons came marching out of his closet. […]
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Maine Democrats wrong to heap scorn on Platner | Letter
As a now former volunteer leader with the Graham Platner campaign and former state convention delegate, this month has been filled with immeasurable disappointment. The allegations against him were serious, credible and Graham’s withdrawal was the right decision for this moment. The contempt from the Maine Democrats and self-proclaimed moderates in the party has been […]
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We must return to decency and civility in politics | Letter
Enough swearing, enough insulting others.
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The senator Patrick Dempsey seems to want is Susan Collins | Letter
Empathy, dignity and leadership? I know where to look.
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With Trump’s record, no other president would still be in office | Letter
In the 1788 Federalist No. 47, James Madison wrote, “… the accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands … may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.” Because our Supreme Court and Congress refuse to hold Trump accountable for his actions, this country has devolved into tyranny. The glue that has held […]
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Republicans must be held accountable for ICE | Letter
My heart breaks for Mr. Guerrero’s friends and family. ICE’s violent confrontation with him was so, so wrong — there are no words. There was no warrant for his arrest, no need for the ICE-initiated typical dangerous car crash with an unmarked car; no need to shoot. And my heart breaks for our country and […]
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Time for Maine’s leaders to show some backbone on ICE | Letter
Jackbooted, black-shirted, trigger-happy ICE enforcement must leave our streets and neighborhoods in Maine. How can citizens reach any conclusion other than that if we are to remain human beings with any moral compass? The recent gunning down of Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, a young father in Biddeford, is the latest example of the Department of Homeland […]
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As gulls survive, Maine will survive | Letter
This is in response to Emerson College Professor Rich West’s July 10 op-ed on the symbolism of seagulls as a metaphor for Maine today (“Portland’s trapped gull was a metaphor for our times”). Here is another view, from a 1961 graduate of Emerson College and a writer on the arts in Maine who has lived […]