The March 16 Maine Sunday Telegram reported that the USDA canceled contracts to continue providing food and funding to Maine schools and nonprofits for three more years. Really? They’re attempting to save money by taking food from hungry kids? More shame on this new administration. If these fat cats ever felt pangs of hunger, they’d […]

The United States Congress is ceding its power as an equal branch of our democracy to the Executive Branch. It is important to have three co-equal branches of the federal government, as was designed by the Founding Fathers. Congress should be the deliberative body that enacts laws designed to benefit the people, all the people, […]

President Trump is terribly misinformed regarding tariffs. The reason American industries, factories and other enterprises have moved to foreign countries is due to the fact that labor costs are cheaper in those areas, resulting in lower costs on those products sold here at home. Warren Buffet, a financial wizard, described the implementation of tariffs as […]

All our lives, until January of this year, we have been very proud to be Americans. That has all changed in the last month. How can anyone be proud of a country that: • threatens our former closest friends and allies with tariffs and lack of backing and mocks their leaders. • tries to rewrite and […]

I find it ironic that Rep. Laurel Libby has come under so much pressure for showing the photo of the girls’ state champion in pole vaulting on her Facebook page. Any athlete contending for a state title, in any sport, can expect to see their picture on the pages of any Maine news outlet. It […]

As I watch the president’s speech, I find myself wondering: why do we, as a nation, continue to let lies go unchecked? I know that fact-checkers scrutinize his speeches, but in today’s polarized climate, that hardly matters. Networks that challenge Trump are dismissed as partisan, deepening our political divide. But regardless of political affiliation, we […]

I’m writing about the March 9 Maine Sunday Telegram report on the loss of local cobblers. We used to count on these shops for repairing our shoes. As a Heels, I’m particularly disappointed about the decline of these shoe shops. I used to go into a shop to have the heels on my shoes replaced […]