Can Maine afford universal healthcare? Can we afford not to have it? My dad in England had a heart attack in his 40s. His care was fully covered by the National Health Service. He made a full recovery. He didn’t have to worry about whether he could afford treatment, nobody went into debt and my […]
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Sen. Collins gives us cause for concern | Letter
Between support for additional ICE funding and Trump’s voting bill, the senator seems out of touch.
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Platner is a product of the Democrats’ demise | Letter
I think Sherlock Holmes would easily have described the ascendancy of Graham Platner as a major Democrat candidate. When a political party eliminates all viable white men, all that remains are unviable white men. Following decades of stereotypical labeling — through phrases like “white fragility,” “toxic masculinity,” “gestating and non-gestating adults” and “cisgender” nonsense — […]
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Where is the church? All around us. | Letter
In the June 14 Maine Sunday Telegram, Keith Vallencourt asked a plaintive question (“As Trump continues to trample on morality, where is the church?”). It’s a question asked from his portion of the church, the self-styled evangelical community. Me? I see the church everywhere, protesting the corruption and greed of Trump and his cohorts; on […]
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Again, there is no such thing as ‘clean’ or ‘beautiful’ coal | Letter
On June 4, President Trump authorized the spending of $700 million in federal funding to build two new coal-fired power plants and to refurbish (and extend the life of) 12 existing coal-fired plants. He characterized his actions as “historic” and asserted that “… clean, beautiful coal will bring down the price of energy and the […]
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Praise for Jon Calame’s Route 1 article and A1 writing style | Letter
Once again, the Maine Sunday Telegram published an excellent article on architecture by Jon Calame, this time on Route 1 (“On its 100th anniversary, Route 1 in Maine is a glimpse of the way Vacationland once was,” June 14). His word choices and descriptions are delightfully unusual. This is an applause-worthy writer. Chalmers HardenberghFreeport
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Why publish inflammatory letters? | Letter
What was the purpose of publishing the letter “Please be informed before voting,” from Peggy Teslow of Sioux Falls, South Dakota, in the June 7 Maine Sunday Telegram? The Democratic Party “wanting to spread hate and divisiveness among the citizens of Maine”? That is blatantly false. “My prayer for the citizens of Maine is that […]
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Graham Platner’s trauma should not rule him out | Letter
I am more interested in who Platner is today than I am in the hurt and angry young man who came out of combat and clearly needed help.
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Elegy for Persephone sparked memories of an old feline friend | Letter
Victoria Hugo-Vidal’s sweet column on her beloved cat Persephone (June 14) triggered some memories of a cat I once knew and loved when living in a hovel in Cambridge, Massachusetts. I shared a floor with two other women, and we each had our own room. One woman had a cat named Longfellow, and I was extremely […]
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‘We’ is a better path forward than ‘us vs. them.’ Enter Rick Bennett. | Letter
I write inspired by Graham Platner’s ad, “Which side are you on?” The ad is seductive, powerful and well executed. Yet it offers a false choice — one that positions elections as “us vs. them” instead of “we.” It plays to today’s partisan echo chambers — the zero-sum game mentality; your loss is my win. […]