The U.S. embassy in Dakar recently rejected visa applications for several members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team. The team had been scheduled to train in the U.S. Senegal is also among the 36 nations that the United States is considering adding to a travel ban. These visa rejections were wrong, just as those travel bans […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
Call Sen. Collins about the big bill | Letter
Sen. Collins needs to hear from us. I think she believes that we all have rights, with no exceptions. But her political party has been taken over by people who want to suppress the rights of everyone but rich, white, cisgendered, male, American citizens. They want to cut services for the poor to give themselves […]
To ‘stop Trump,’ focus on economy | Letter
This is a response to the June 17 op-ed “Maine’s congressional leaders must step up to stop Trump.” The best way to stop President Donald Trump is for Democrats to take back the U.S. House and Senate in the 2026 election. Democrats lost the 2024 election because they didn’t pay enough attention to working class […]
Corrections officer’s arrest by ICE is out of touch | Letter
D.C. might want this. I can’t believe Maine does.
Constituents deserve better than message forms | Letter
Years ago, while running an Army newspaper in Vietnam, I saw that we were coming up on our unit’s birthday and I sent a Telex to the Pentagon suggesting that they send a birthday greeting to the troops that we could run in the paper. They agreed and asked me to draft it, which I […]
Budget bill will lead to treacherous national debt | Letter
Many people, myself included, stop listening when they hear a string of large numbers. Despite this, it would be wise if Americans would consider what the “big, beautiful bill” will do to our lives via the national debt. Currently our national debt, at $36.2 trillion, is so large that each American would owe $230,000 if […]
Time to rebrand those MAGA hats | Letter
President Trump never intended to make America great again.
Forest Ave development is reckless, irresponsible | Letter
A developer plans to build two three-story apartment buildings — 50 units total — at 1584 Forest Ave., a 1.5-acre piece of property behind Moran’s Market and along Talbot School Road. The project, Belfort Landing, would dramatically affect Belfort Street, a quiet residential cul-de-sac behind the site. To make it work, the developer intends to […]
Where’s the sustained outrage? | Letter
Where is the outrage? Yes, there have been demonstrations around the country protesting President Trump’s authoritarian moves. But a week after each demonstration, people quiet down and go back to their lives. I am shocked we don’t have even more vocal outrage at what is happening to our democracy. Just today there was a story […]
‘Death with dignity’ has been strengthened in Maine | Letter
Gov. Mills has signed into law a bill that allows up to 10 days of the 17-day waiting period to be waived. Good.