Calling Rick Bennett’s support of our Somali neighbors an act of courage isn’t saying much.
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Christmas in Maine is about much more than the scenery | Letter
Embodying the season’s spirit through giving and support is also a part of what makes this place special.
Janet Mills’ record on education fails to make the grade | Letter
The dramatic decline in Maine students’ performance should worry every single parent and teacher.
Questions swirl around Trump’s AI efforts | Letter
Policy makers have a lot to consider on the president’s artificial intelligence project.
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 […]
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 […]
Remember how much language matters | Letter
The language of this administration is no different than that of Germany in the 1930s.
Administration misleads us with the term ‘narco-terrorists’ | Letter
Labeling criminals as terrorists wrongly lowers the threshold for lethal force.
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 […]
Janet Mills has been fighting from the start | Letter
Stop putting social media above real life.