Elon Musk had a lot of fun recently, brandishing a chainsaw, symbolizing his approach to slashing government waste, fraud and abuse. A few days later he changed his tune, saying that the Department of Government Efficiency was instead applying a scalpel to governmental agencies. As a retired surgeon, I would like to expand on that […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Letter: We must stand up to the Trump administration’s gleeful cruelty
Gleeful cruelty is the despicable scene being played out as Trump and his minions pursue their DOGE initiative. Their purpose claim of rooting out waste, fraud and abuse is undermined by their indiscriminate and illogical actions: • Providing lifesaving food and medical care to starving children and families around the world is not waste. • […]
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Letter: Genetics and athletic performance are not intertwined
I am responding to a recent letter saying that Maine must protect female athletes by banning transgender women from competition. Many trans women are on hormone therapy, which negates some of the biological advantage they may have. Some trans women participate in a sport that they love but where they might not have that much […]
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Letter: Gov. Mills’ response to President Trump was just fine
In the March 9 Maine Sunday Telegram, Charles Todorich gave us an adequate summation of Joshua Chamberlain’s feats on Little Round Top. But in his efforts to equate and distinguish choices made by Chamberlain and Gov. Janet Mills, regarding which “hill to die on,” he stretches his metaphor to the point of incomprehensibility. Janet Mills […]
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Letter: Rep. Libby crossed the line
We should be able to expect that an elected official would not intentionally expose a teenager to bullying for the sake of self-promotion.
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Letter: Publicly financed universal health care for Maine
Under the Feb. 25, 2025 opinion page headline “Maine needs to find a way to preserve health care,” Mary Capobianco listed problems she has experienced personally or identified in Maine’s health care system, including shortage of equipment and technicians, scheduling and reporting delays, hospital and birthing center closures, shrinking numbers of OB/GYN doctors, threatened reductions […]
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Letter: Expand Maine’s tobacco prevention and cessation efforts
As a primary care doctor, I see just how devastating tobacco use and nicotine addiction are for my patients. In fact, tobacco use is the leading cause of preventable death in Maine. It claims more than 2,400 lives every year. But one program is working to reduce that number. Maine’s tobacco prevention and cessation programs, […]
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Letter: Our childish president needs to grow up
As a retired middle school administrator and a veteran of more than 30 years, working with adolescents, I watched the Feb. 21 interaction between our president of the United States and our governor, Janet Mills, with a mix of nostalgia and shock. Nostalgia because I truly enjoyed working with these young adolescents as they struggled […]
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Letter: Don’t forget the Statue of Liberty’s message
Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus,” as engraved on a plaque on the Statue of Liberty, states in part: “Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” Let us […]
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Letter: Are readers engaged by birthdays of the day?
Longtime subscriber here. I love my newspaper but I like having a local, independent newspaper written by local journalists more, and so I understand the changes the Maine Trust is making. But while they’re looking at things, here’s something I’ve noticed: in the “Today’s Birthdays” section on Page 2, at the bottom of the “Today’s […]