I want to thank Clare Dalton for authoring the June 19 op-ed on Maine’s Death with Dignity statute (“Amend Maine’s Death with Dignity statute, reduce suffering“). Fifteen years ago, the Portland Press Herald printed an article I wrote asking for the same type of relief for people living in pain with no hope of relief […]

Your readers were subject to an opinion piece in the June 22 newspaper that was presumably written by Sen. Trey Stewart and Sarah E. Hunt (“Biden’s signature act fails Maine, feeds China“). I say presumably because it could have easily been written by a few choice prompts in ChatGPT. For instance, if you wrote the […]

I’ve been hearing a lot lately about our “heroic ICE officers” being attacked for simply doing their job. Whether I agree or not that their jobs are worth doing, I strongly disagree that they are heroes. Wouldn’t a hero proudly display their identity? Why would they wear a mask if they are so heroic? Some […]

I’d like to follow up on Gov. Janet Mills’ public memo of June 6, kicking off June as “Dairy Month at University of Maine Witter Farm.” The governor emphasized that milk bottled in Maine can be identified by a code on the container beginning with the number 23. It is a little-known fact that while […]

The U.S. embassy in Dakar recently rejected visa applications for several members of Senegal’s women’s basketball team. The team had been scheduled to train in the U.S. Senegal is also among the 36 nations that the United States is considering adding to a travel ban. These visa rejections were wrong, just as those travel bans […]

Sen. Collins needs to hear from us. I think she believes that we all have rights, with no exceptions. But her political party has been taken over by people who want to suppress the rights of everyone but rich, white, cisgendered, male, American citizens. They want to cut services for the poor to give themselves […]

This is a response to the June 17 op-ed “Maine’s congressional leaders must step up to stop Trump.” The best way to stop President Donald Trump is for Democrats to take back the U.S. House and Senate in the 2026 election. Democrats lost the 2024 election because they didn’t pay enough attention to working class […]

Years ago, while running an Army newspaper in Vietnam, I saw that we were coming up on our unit’s birthday and I sent a Telex to the Pentagon suggesting that they send a birthday greeting to the troops that we could run in the paper. They agreed and asked me to draft it, which I […]

Many people, myself included, stop listening when they hear a string of large numbers. Despite this, it would be wise if Americans would consider what the “big, beautiful bill” will do to our lives via the national debt. Currently our national debt, at $36.2 trillion, is so large that each American would owe $230,000 if […]