I commend you on your July 1 article on Maine’s SNAP program. Showing the human side of the program and the increased state administrative costs provided the clear impact of the federal changes. However, I would like to expand on the “error rate.” First, the error rate is an administrative process to evaluate the quality […]

I am outraged at the forced starvation of Palestinian children, women and men, including the elderly and the disabled. • One in three people in Gaza is now going without food for days at a time. • More than 20,000 children have been treated for acute malnutrition since April. • Total deaths from starvation, including […]

Each day brings another outrageous executive order, false accusation or blatant lie from Donald Trump. He calls Barack Obama and his Department of Justice “scum,” obfuscates about his involvement with the late Jeffrey Epstein, attempts to bully and humiliate Fed Chair Jerome Powell, defies the rule of law in his immigration policies, refuses to stop […]

The Aug. 1 letter by Leigh Bullion (“An error in judgment by Angus King“), urging Sen. Angus King to retire for King’s admitted “mistake” in voting along with every Republican senator (with zero Democrats and independents, except King himself) to confirm ultra-conservative and anti-abortion Josh Divine to a lifetime federal judgeship is right on the […]

This is in response to Jim Fossel’s column in the Aug. 3 Sunday Telegram (“Like the Red Sox, Maine Republicans seem content to coast“). Fossel should leave the Red Sox out of his partisan, political column. Daniel Turgeon Saco

In November, the American public will watch a very powerful documentary series by Ken Burns on the American Revolutionary War. It’s likely to be even more impactful than his series on the Vietnam War and the Civil War combined. This series is guaranteed to make Americans understand our core values and the greatness of that […]

Thank you for Joe Charpentier’s recent article on the increasing warmth and humidity in Maine. As the state with the greatest percentage of folks over age 65, this is going to cause significant hardship. As an octogenarian, I find that enjoyable tasks like weeding my garden when it’s 75 degrees become unbearable when it’s 85 […]