I laughed when I read the Jan. 18 letter to the editor asking people to “give the Trumpadministration its due.” Mr. Grant’s talking points illustrate the real power behind autocrats like Donald Trump: it isn’t Trump’s selfishness that’s the problem. It’s that millions of supporters believe his lies in the face of overwhelming evidence to […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Nationalizing elections would destroy America’s identity | Letter
President Trump’s call to nationalize elections is a desperate attempt to retain power in the face ofgrowing unpopularity. Such a move would destroy the very essence of the United States. Ours is perhaps the only country whose name describes what our founders intended: a collection of sovereign states united under a constitution. It’s important to […]
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Of course the petroleum industry doesn’t want to pay | Letter
Drew Ketterer’s Feb. 5 op-ed (“Climate superfund bill is an impractical choice for Maine”), concerning LD 1870, continues the petroleum industry’s history of misleading information (he is an attorney for petroleum companies, no surprise there). Readers should be aware of a 2025 report, endorsed by 12 national health organizations (including Physicians for Social Responsibility PSR, […]
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Racism, unfortunately, is alive and well in America | Letter
In Charles Todorich’s Feb. 8 op-ed about white guilt he claims, “[Racism] has been nearly completely excised from public conversation … [Shelby] Steele writes that today’s conservatives sound like Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963.” Completely excised? It’s as if the president had not, just last week, disseminated racist memes about the Obamas. What might […]
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Elect Hannah Pingree to reform health care | Letter
Health care in Maine shouldn’t be this hard. What we need seems so simple: coverage we can afford and high-quality care close to home. But the system we’ve built is anything but simple, and everyone has someone else to blame. National reform is a must, there is no silver bullet, and states can’t wait. As […]
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Trump desecrating the National Prayer Breakfast was no surprise | Letter
Leave it to Donald Trump to desecrate an event like the recent National Prayer Breakfast. Never one to miss an opportunity to talk about himself, he spent over an hour in his rambling and meandering address spewing falsehoods, repeating his many personal grievances and delivering insulting personal attacks on his perceived enemies. This is a […]
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Come November, Mainers can send a great gift to Minneapolis | Letter
A friend of mine, in Minneapolis, on hearing Sen. Susan Collins voice her support for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, wrote me to say that the best thing the people of Maine can do to support the people of Minneapolis is to replace Susan Collins in November. Whether people support Graham Platner or Janet Mills […]
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Even the Scouts are fair game now? | Letter
Imagine moving to remove support for an organization that has given our young people so much.
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Maine’s Right to Repair legislation should also include electronics | Letter
Anyone who purchases a device should be able to repair it if it breaks. This seems like it should be common sense, but in many states there aren’t laws that protect repair. Manufacturers do their best to restrict our ability to fix our devices by withholding access to the parts, tools and information we need. […]
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A sad display at Bath Iron Works | Letter
Passing through Bath last Sunday, I was sickened to see Bath Iron Works festooned with flags in anticipation of a visit by the secretary of war. Simply put, Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and their ilk are deadly enemies of the Constitution, democracy and every American. The flags at BIW should have flown upside down. Stephen […]