A recent letter to the Portland Press-Herald on California’s Proposition 12 (“Maine lawmakers should keep EATS Act out of Farm Bill,” Aug. 13) gets it wrong. Proposition 12 is a California law that dictates costly mandates to farmers in Maine and the other 48 states if they want to sell eggs and pork in California. […]
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How we vote can affect our health | Letter
Let’s count the ways the current president and his administration are threatening our health: 1. One in six Americans dies from cancer. Currently, mRNA vaccines are being used to fight some cancers and they are a very promising approach to more cancers. The secretary of health and human services is drastically cutting back on mRNA […]
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Is it time to reconsider the political nature of our union? | Letter
It must be painfully evident to many in Congress, perhaps hundreds, that Donald Trump is ethically, morally and mentally unfit for office. Yet they won’t state the obvious because too many are complicit in his crimes to remove him. Well, they should state it anyway, because the bottom line is this madman has no right […]
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Republicans are trying to rig the system | Letter
Mainers are debating over election security and voter ID. Many say our elections are riddled with fraud, despite a complete lack of evidence. This is mostly a Republican effort to restrict the participation of people they feel are more likely to vote Democratic. To see the hypocrisy of it all, we need only look to […]
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Are people just not a priority anymore? | Letter
Sometimes I read or hear things about what’s going on with our government and I just want to write and get it off my chest. This morning I read the headlines that the Florida detention camp needs to shut down. In this case, I think about money. All the money spent on this for naught. […]
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Sen. Collins’ Tuesday reports are missing the mark | Letter
Here are the topics to be found in Sen. Susan Collins’ Tuesday report for Aug. 19, 2025: Celebrated the 90th Anniversary of the Social Security Act; Secured Postponement and Review of Navigational Buoy Removal; Funding Secured for Child Care Centers Across Maine; American Hospital Association Salutes Senator Collins for Rural Hospital Funding; MIA Korean War […]
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Protect absentee voting in Maine | Letter
In 2024, a campaign known as “Voter ID for ME” collected signatures for a referendum question to change Maine’s voting laws. Backed by wealthy out-of-state interests, it will come before voters on Election Day in November 2025. The question will read: “Do you want to change Maine election laws to eliminate two days of absentee […]
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Is this really what Republicans want? | Letter
I wonder why Republicans seem to want to live in a fascist dictatorship. Why do they want to live in a country run like Putin’s Russia, Orban’s Hungary, Erdoğan’s Turkey, Maduro’s Venezuela, etc. Countries that nominally have elections, but the elections don’t mean anything because it’s all fixed. What is their fascination with the “strongman” […]
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Gorham Town Council has reached a new low | Letter
The recent decision by the Gorham Town Council to sell a 94-acre parcel to Amazon without sharing this with the public continues a history of voting without regard to town residents. Over 900 housing units were approved between Main Street and Country Road against objections by the residents. When traffic is already a major concern […]
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Telling it like it is on Trump, Putin and Ukraine | Letter
I was uplifted after reading Leo Mazerall’s letter in the Aug. 24 paper (“Trump’s meeting with war criminal Putin was shameful“). It seemed a courageous statement. Mark Twain has written that it is easier to fool a man than to persuade him that he has been fooled. It is even harder to admit that we […]