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I appreciated the Maine Sunday Telegram’s Editorial Board position in “A lot done to ease SNAP fear in Maine. A lot more to do.” (Our View, Nov. 2). As stated, the current crisis “has shed valuable light on the precarity of day-to-day life for so many of us.” In my own case, I discovered, despite my Maine […]

Hi, neighbors. Have you noticed how the “new progressives” keep calling everyone they dislike a Nazi, melting down over guns, and insisting white men always skate by … until Graham Platner shows up, checking those same boxes? Funny how that works. This isn’t progressivism, it’s regressivism. A political performativism by an affluent, government-dependent, “college-educated,” noisy […]

Sen. Susan Collins called the government shutdown “entirely unnecessary.” I agree. If Republicans hadn’t cut Americans’ health insurance subsidies and safety nets, Democrats wouldn’t have to keep rejecting the stopgap funding bill.  Even Sen. Collins voted against the so-called “big, beautiful bill” due, as she said, to “the harmful impact it will have on Medicaid, affecting […]

As a retired graphic artist, I’m at a loss to understand why you chose the image you used in the Our View editorial titled “Vote ‘No’ on Maine’s Question 1” (Sunday, Oct. 19). Sure, use a ballot entering a box, But why have the text of the editorial on that ballot be nearly illegible? Already […]

Matt Dunlap learned long ago, as a varsity athlete and a captain at Mount Desert Island High School, to be a team player. Years later, Matt remains a team player. Whether it’s defending fellow Democrats who come under attack or voting against Republican spending bills and tax breaks for millionaires, he can be relied upon to support […]