Like a bug being crushed underneath a heel — that’s what fascism feels like. And that’s what President Trump and his minions intend — to keep everyone feeling so low that no one has the energy to act. Everything this chainsaw administration proposes is heart-wrenching: deeper than deep cuts to social services, education, medical research, […]

I would like to applaud and strongly support what critic Jon Calame said in his May 18, 2025 column in the Sunday Telegram regarding the proposed Old Port Square tower. I think Calame was being very polite in his opposition to the tower. I think such a building would be an obscenity. Maybe some think […]

Hannah Pingree recently announced her resignation from the role of director of the governor’s Office of Policy Innovation. We remember Pingree, the daughter of Rep. Chellie Pingree, a failing, partisan U.S. Representative. Pingree served four terms in the Maine House of Representatives, some as speaker or as majority leader. She accomplished little, always mouthing the […]

In a powerful 1982 film, “The Verdict,” Paul Newman delivers one of the most touching defenses of evident truth ever captured on film – for a woman rendered crippled through drugs mistakenly given to her by a prominent hospital, defended by prestigious lawyers, while he stands alone. In his character’s impassioned closing in the medical […]

My father was a frontline surgeon during World War II. His unit liberated the Dachau concentration camp. He saw firsthand the horrors of war. Like many Americans, I’m astounded by the cruelty of the Trump administration towards immigrants, gays and lesbians, Black people and anyone who opposes President Trump. How did we come to this? […]

Just what we needed: The front page article in the Maine Sunday Telegram (“Grieving Brunswick, York high school athletes find comfort in sports,” May 25) on the best of what youth sports can be about. So much recent focus on the bullying in male high school teams (important) needed this counterbalance to show how young […]

Vanity costs U.S. taxpayers in wasted dollars. We apparently need a newer used presidential plane because the one we own is too old and insufficiently lavish. The president seems impatient waiting for the $4 billion-plus investment our taxpayers are spending on two new Air Force One planes, due to be completed in 2027. Forbes reported […]

What is the meaning of diversity, equity and inclusion? Diversity is, in truth, the foundation on which America was built. Our ancestors were an exceptional gathering of people escaping or expelled from or by tyrannical regimes. They were looking to form a new way of life in a “promised land.” Equity is prominently stated as […]