Criminals should be deported, but minimally trained agents and officers are overstepping reasonable bounds.
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Propane delivery delay not an isolated experience | Letter
Watching my tanks edge toward 20% made me very nervous.
Kids like me shouldn’t be feeling so scared | Letter
I’m in fifth grade and part of a nice community; I go to school, I have friends, and my parents take care of me. But lately, even with all of that, I feel scared. I’ve been hearing the news more than I used to. One night, I was sleeping over at a friend’s house when […]
Cryptocurrency mining is not for Maine | Letter
The state already subsidizes commercial solar farms at taxpayer expense.
We should be protesting fraud, not ICE | Letter
Contrary to 99% of the letters to the editor and the opinion columns in this newspaper, I am very proud of the accomplishments of President Trump, the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Trump truly is making America great again. I am embarrassed and angry that […]
Pete Hegseth is an insult to our armed forces | Letter
I found the above-the-fold headline, quoting the so-called “secretary of war,” appalling (Feb. 9). This is not a serious person, for reasons I think many of your readers recognize. Firing senior women commanders (Coast Guard), retiring the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, a Black officer with decades of distinguished service, the list goes on and […]
We must define universal health care before seeking major reform | Letter
Not until we do that can we focus on how the system would affect cost, patients and providers.
Maine is the oldest state. That’s no bad thing. | Letter
I smile at the statistics; I understand what Maine is and what we have here.
Let’s rethink winter recess in Maine schools | Letter
Maine children deserve to experience winter not from behind a window, but fully within it.
Rep. Golden’s attitude toward ICE is a wishful one | Letter
Maine’s 2nd District congressman supports the agency as long as it ‘remains’ something it is not.