State politics here in Maine have suffered from a lack of civility we should expect from our chief executive. Gov. Mills’ natural propensity is taking swings at those she disagrees with in a prosecutorial manner, reflective of her profession. For many, it has been a long seven years of enduring one charge after another against […]
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US citizens should honor and respect the American flag | Letter
To the point. I don’t care which side someone is on, it’s never OK to fly the American flag upside down. I saw that at the protest in Wells on Saturday, Jan. 28, at the corner of routes 1 and 109, and I was offended! Maybe, just maybe, it was not an American flying it, […]
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Susan Collins is no friend of immigrants and no moderate | Letter
Don’t fall for Susan Collins’ latest playacting as a moderate senator, bravely defending immigrant rights in Maine against Kristi Noem and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). She had nothing to do with Noem pausing the “surge.” This was strictly a political decision by the administration and the Republican Party to help with her reelection […]
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Shah is more than qualified to be Maine’s next governor | Letter
Voters doing their due diligence will be aware of his impressive and well-rounded background.
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A nagging question on being armed | Letter
As I celebrate my 94th birthday, I am troubled by a situation that keeps bopping in my brainlike a line from a song, which I do not like but which I cannot forget. It is legal to carry a firearm concealed in a backpack, in a holster, in one’s handbag, tucked into one’s belt. Presumably […]
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‘Just doing our job’ doesn’t apply to ICE excesses | Letter
People suddenly terrified of being on the wrong side of history may attempt to justify recent events as mistakes. Mistakes?
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Should we have to earn the right to affordable health care? | Letter
This is in response to a Jan. 27 letter (“Reality of health care worth examining“) that supported universal health care, but only for people “contingent with a healthy lifestyle.” The premise is that people who abuse their body get no health care, because they don’t deserve it. Does this mean that Trump would lose his […]
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ICE immigration enforcement logic is flawed | Letter
Thank you for Amy Fried’s Jan. 26 op-ed on immigration enforcement (“The ICE surge in Maine is relying on lies“). In many ways, the current ICE surge is the Trump administration in miniature: a gigantic transmogrification machine. Residents of the United States who can’t document that they were born here, especially if they don’t look “white” […]
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Don’t believe disinformation about climate change | Letter
Thanks for publishing the AP article “Meteorologists blame moisture, lack of sea ice, stretched polar vortex for upcoming winter blast” on Jan. 22. As tens of millions of Americans face brutal winter weather, you provided the science-based information they need to make sense of the cold. The weather gods must like irony, as they conspire to mislead […]
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Maine needs an independent governor to bridge the political divide | Letter
We are living in a time of two separate Maines and two separate Americas. Our nation and our people are perhaps the most divided since the Civil War. As an independent candidate for governor, I also see it in the two gubernatorial campaigns. That’s right, there are two very separate gubernatorial campaigns for this one […]