I cannot adequately express my sorrow and embarrassment about what the president has done to our relationship with Canada, a relationship developed through trade, tourism and standing together. During World War I, Canada was involved from the beginning — declaring war in support of England. Canada sent roughly 424,000 soldiers overseas and many gave, in Abraham […]

It’s not hard to agree with James Deyermond (“After State of the Union, Maine is faced with a choice,” March 1) that fraud should be rooted out from government expenditures wherever it occurs. Perhaps there is some fraud in Medicaid payments in Maine. What I find troubling is that Mr. Deyermond, as chairman of the […]

It’s easy for the president to say, casually and callously, that “American lives will be lost” when it isn’t a member of his family whose life is on the line — for an unauthorized war with no clear plan forward, or logical rationale.  My son, who is in the U.S. Navy and right in the […]

Trust is not something that can be flown in from D.C.