I am a physician recently retired from practice in Portland. Every day, I saw residents living with lung diseases, such as COPD, asthma and lung cancer, who depended on access to treatments and medications as well as clean air to ensure that they can stay healthy enough to work, go to family events and live […]

We the people need to strongly oppose President Trump’s plan to have a military parade on June 14 in honor of his 79th birthday. He is justifying the parade by saying it is also a celebration of the Army’s 250th anniversary. It is beyond appalling that the parade will cost tens of millions of our […]

The way Gov. Janet Mills stood up to the president deserves much more attention. When the federal government tried to paint her as a villain for doing her job, it wasn’t just political — it was bullying. Executive orders are not laws, and she was well within her rights to act in the best interest […]

In the 1860s, our country was divided over the issue of slavery. Today, everyone is against it. In the early 1900s, women’s voting was controversial. Is any man now willing to explain to his daughters why women should not vote? Today, everyone is for this. No serious person thinks we should have a segregated military, […]

Reporters Rachel Ohm and Joe Charpentier introduced readers to only one AmeriCorps service earlier this month. It’s important to remember that AmeriCorps funding also includes the Senior Corps. Over 100 seniors volunteer in the Senior Corps in York and Cumberland counties, serving in two capacities: as foster grandparents or senior companions. Foster grandparents volunteer at […]

I object to columnist’s Steve Collins’ ageist assumption that Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, 91, would be incapable of leading the country if the top three officials were unable to do so (“An old Senate tradition needs to be put out of its misery,” May 2). A healthy man, Grassley would be infinitely more capable than […]

Earlier this month, a settlement was reached by the state of Maine with our USDA, via Gov. Mills, Attorney General Frey and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins. Reaching a settlement in such lawsuits is an achievement. What if our governor and attorney general followed our state motto via their words after this settlement was reached? According […]

Are Republicans like they are because they were born that way or raised that way? Do they: lack empathy for the poor and downtrodden, here and abroad; lack respect and support for science, research, facts; hate those who are different from them ethnically, sexually, religiously and/or are immigrants; blindly follow authoritarian figures; support democracy, free […]