After attending the “No Kings” protest at Lincoln Park in Portland (I carried an American flag on a short pole, which doubled as my cane), I watched the NBC Nightly News coverage of the military parade in Washington, D.C., expecting to see precise marching by thousands of soldiers in full-dress uniforms, with a gleeful President […]
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the editor of the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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Federal budget bill will worsen crises of housing, health care | Letter
Maine and the U.S. are facing real problems. One is a health care crisis, particularly in rural areas, that will be made worse by the proposed cuts to Medicaid (and perhaps Medicare) to pay for tax cuts to those who need it least. More health care workers are needed, but the GOP is targeting immigrants, […]
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Maine mental health workers must guard against burnout | Letter
My hope in writing this letter is to prompt readers to reflect on their own health care experiences and ask: “What kind of care do I deserve?” and “Are my providers truly meeting my needs?” I work as an outpatient mental health therapist in rural Maine. In 2024, I enrolled in a neurofeedback training program […]
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Is the coverage favorable? Or is it the protest? | Letter
While the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was an attempt to destroy democracy, the recent ‘No Kings’ demonstrations looked to preserve it.
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Tell Israel to get its arms elsewhere | Letter
I find it shamefully ironic that 85 years after the genocide of Jewish people and others by the Nazis, the Israeli government behaves in the same way. No ovens, just bombs and missiles. I remind those who remain ignorant that this mess was created in 1947 with the Balfour Declaration by Britain. Then came the […]
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We can’t lose sight of our worsening wealth gap | Letter
The recent “No Kings” protests affirmed just how furious millions of American patriots are with the Trump administration’s Gestapo-esque enforcement of deportation policy. However, by focusing our energy on the acute symptoms of our country’s MAGA disease (ICE abductions, the president’s deluded ramblings, his unhinged foreign policy, etc.) we distract ourselves from the root cause […]
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Why slash the medical research that offers us hope? | Letter
In the year 1969, man landed on the moon, and my 7-year-old brother was admitted to the children’s cancer ward at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Curing childhood leukemia in 1969 was truly a moonshot. My brother did not survive. My parents, in their unfathomable grief, gave consent to an autopsy. What […]
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Laurel Libby deserves praise for speaking out | Letter
I’m writing to voice my support for Rep. Laurel Libby and speak out about what happened to her — and to us, her constituents — over the past several months. I’m pleased the courts have untied the hands of my representative, but angry that for months we citizens of Auburn and Minot were without representation. […]
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Stop excusing Maine’s dismal test scores | Letter
Maine students are performing at the bottom in reading and math and it’s time to stop making excuses. The Maine Department of Education’s refusal to acknowledge this crisis is eroding public trust and is a disservice to teachers. Despite what Commissioner Pender Makin and her department may argue, there is nothing “innovative” about using programs […]
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Demand that Maine’s senators protect Medicaid and clean air programs | Letter
As a retired asthma and allergy physician and a new grandmother, I am extremely concerned about a bill being considered in Congress that would devastate the Medicaid program and significantly cut programs that clean our air. I spent my career caring for people who depend on treatments and medications as well as clean air to […]