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Letters to the Editor
  • Published
    January 26, 2013

    Grappling with escalation of violence

    The need to grapple with the current escalation of violence on a national scale is unprecedented and requires collaborative effort.

  • Published
    January 26, 2013

    Clinton’s GOP questioners sometimes on the edge

    Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appeared this week before the Foreign Relations Committee in separate meetings of the Senate and House. The purpose was to determine what happened at Benghazi.

  • Published
    January 25, 2013

    Museum a good home for impressive labor mural

    I stopped by the Maine State Museum recently to view the controversial labor mural displayed in the atrium. It was a kind of pilgrimage for me.

  • Published
    January 25, 2013

    Elected officials don’t take oath of office seriously

    When will elected officials again take seriously their oath to support -- and defend -- the U.S. Constitution? Against all enemies, foreign and domestic? To bear true faith and allegiance to the same? And to take this obligation freely "without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion?" To well and faithfully discharge the duties of office?

  • Published
    January 25, 2013

    A different St. Anthony helps find lost people

    On Jan. 17, the newspaper ran an article about the Mass for Ayla, the missing girl from Waterville.

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  • Published
    January 25, 2013

    Buying land should be at bottom of priority list

    After reading George Smith's column ("Governor still rebuffing citizens' desire to conserve precious land," Jan. 16), I decided Smith has been so busy writing stuff like this that he hasn't had time to read the paper.

  • Published
    January 25, 2013

    Cartoon an insult to innocent gun owners

    Your cartoon, "Second Amendment Arms Race," on page A7 on Jan. 12 was absolutely ridiculous. It is an insult to innocent, law-abiding gun owners.

  • Published
    January 21, 2013

    Law enforcers pledge to uphold Constitution

    Recently, it has come to the attention of the media that sheriffs around our great nation are refusing to enforce any legislation that violates our Second Amendment rights.

  • Published
    January 21, 2013

    Learn why amendments written as they were

    In response to Robert Vitolo's letter (Jan. 8), "Second Amendment may have been a mistake."

  • Published
    January 21, 2013

    Hot heads with guns make poor decisions, people die

    The Second Amendment's words, "a well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state," clearly indicates the idea was to regulate guns and limit ownership.