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 […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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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Susan Collins no longer represents Maine | Letter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 […]
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Maine really can’t figure out food for children, students? | Letter
Self-reliance seems to have gone out the window.
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Moderate Republicans have been made politically homeless | Letter
As a longtime Mainer, I have become increasingly discouraged watching what has happened to the Republican Party and to many elected officials who once claimed to value institutional integrity, accountability and independent leadership. What concerns me most is not only President Trump’s behavior, but how normalized so much of it has become within today’s political […]
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Trump slush fund for ‘victimized’ allies is all wrong | Letter
Our president is so convinced that the world is a brutal and dangerous place that he is creating that very world. He is so convinced everyone is out to get him that he is out to get them first. He is paranoid and narcissistic and acts with delusions of grandeur. The creation by the Justice […]
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Hard to feel enthusiastic about Bath’s destroyers | Letter
Regarding the recent news report — “Bath Iron Works awarded contract to build a new destroyer” (May 7) — it will be a good day when a headline talks of “creating” instead of destroying. Leonard ShamesBrunswick
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America is paying the price for Trump’s narcissism | Letter
Our country is toxic and that is affecting all of us on a daily basis. It is not COVID-19 déjà vu. It’s much more desperate and cynical. One of the most evil things imaginable is that Donald Trump has caused many people to hate: to hate women; hate gays; hate Black people; hate anybody who […]
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Hannah Pingree is the best person to govern Maine | Letter
These are not normal times, and Maine can’t afford a normal governor. We need someone who knows Augusta’s pressure points, understands where the federal threats are landing, and has the relationships to fight back. That person is Hannah Pingree. I spent most of my life as a Republican. I left when the GOP stopped being […]
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Valuable reflections on the Holocaust are taking place across Maine | Letter
We were delighted to read the May 8 opinion piece by Jan Burzlaff (“For Holocaust survivors, Maine offered another version of liberation,” Maine Sunday Telegram). Mr. Burzlaff references three of our founders — Gerda Schild Haas, Cantor Kurt Messerschmidt and his wife Sonja Messerschmidt — describing their journeys from the concentration camps to Maine, where […]