Policy makers have a lot to consider on the president’s artificial intelligence project.
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Lewiston made the right call on AI data center | Letter
What a pleasant surprise to see the headline, “Lewiston votes down AI data center after public outcry” (Dec. 17). But I probably should not have been surprised. Data Center Watch, an organization that tracks public opposition to large AI data centers, notes on its website that $64 billion of these projects in the United States […]
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Platner’s youth and inexperience are assets | Letter
I just noticed that, in the Dec. 11 edition, there was a letter to the editor expressing support for Janet Mills based on her experience and good works. Just below it was an op-ed about the power of youth leadership and how youth voices can shift a community faster than those of adults. I thought […]
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Remember how much language matters | Letter
The language of this administration is no different than that of Germany in the 1930s.
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Administration misleads us with the term ‘narco-terrorists’ | Letter
Labeling criminals as terrorists wrongly lowers the threshold for lethal force.
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We’re well into the onset of a dictatorship | Letter
Something’s happening here. What it is is increasingly clear. The autocracy may not solidify, but we’re close. President Trump, rather than uphold the law as he swore to do, succeeds in ignoring the law, or finding ways around it, or loopholes through it. Killing people suspected of ferrying cocaine, claiming it’s fitting because they are […]
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Janet Mills has been fighting from the start | Letter
Stop putting social media above real life.
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Support the work of service animals — leave your pets at home | Letter
For people with disabilities, navigating shared public spaces is difficult enough as it is.
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Support the Medicare for All Act | Letter
Thank you to Drs. Jeffrey Barkin and Daniel Bryant for their excellent opinion pieces about our health care system in recent Sunday editions. Support for Medicare for All is strong among patients as well as health care professionals. A recent Data for Progress poll finds that 65% of all Americans support a Medicare for All […]
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Portland students offered a ray of hope in dark times | Letter
The recent protest against ICE was an inspiration.