When we hear emergency vehicles, sirens wailing and lights flashing, driving through our neighborhoods, we wonder about the crisis unfolding. We too often overlook the enduring commitment of those routinely responding to those calls for help — the paramedics, EMTs, dispatchers and support staff — who rush toward danger, not away from it. Emergency Medical […]

As we watch the Trump regime ransack the federal government and trash the Constitution, Rep. Jared Golden chooses to level his criticisms at the grassroots organization Indivisible, calling it divisive and questioning its financing. If pushing back on the fascist regime in Washington, D.C., is divisive, then I guess that moniker fits. It’s not even […]

Things have changed drastically with the Kennebec Journal in the last couple of months in regard to layout, delivery and content. One thing that hasn’t changed though, at least not for the better, is the consistency of the left-leaning tone throughout your letters and opinion section. It could be that most of your readership identifies […]

Try living on the average single person’s weekly food stamp benefit. You’ll understand there is no room left to cut.

For four years, Americans were in a “constitutional crisis” when illegals were allowed into our country. And when Americans had to pay higher tariffs to other countries for goods. Now that those countries are being required to do the same, they don’t like it. Who said the U.S. has to save the world when we […]

I write with respect and admiration for Anelise Feldman, the high school track athlete who articulately addressed what it is actually like to be a teammate of the transgender student that censured Rep. Laurel Libby felt compelled to name in a Facebook post. Ms. Feldman’s letter to the editor on May 14 displayed maturity and […]

Noah Stern-Rich’s May 11 op-ed (“Maine needs to get its act together on gun laws“) seems to imply that the more anti-gun laws, the better. We already have a federal background check that works. It would work even better if all local criminal records were tied into the federal system. As to red flag laws, […]

Our president has bragged about the “most successful” first 100 days in presidential history. Successful for whom? The stock market has had its worst performance in a president’s first 100 days since 1974, and gross domestic product dropped over the first quarter of 2025, the first time in years. Of course, the president is not […]