In Charles Todorich’s Feb. 8 op-ed about white guilt he claims, “[Racism] has been nearly completely excised from public conversation … [Shelby] Steele writes that today’s conservatives sound like Martin Luther King Jr. in 1963.” Completely excised? It’s as if the president had not, just last week, disseminated racist memes about the Obamas. What might […]
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Elect Hannah Pingree to reform health care | Letter
Health care in Maine shouldn’t be this hard. What we need seems so simple: coverage we can afford and high-quality care close to home. But the system we’ve built is anything but simple, and everyone has someone else to blame. National reform is a must, there is no silver bullet, and states can’t wait. As […]
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Come November, Mainers can send a great gift to Minneapolis | Letter
A friend of mine, in Minneapolis, on hearing Sen. Susan Collins voice her support for Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, wrote me to say that the best thing the people of Maine can do to support the people of Minneapolis is to replace Susan Collins in November. Whether people support Graham Platner or Janet Mills […]
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Trump desecrating the National Prayer Breakfast was no surprise | Letter
Leave it to Donald Trump to desecrate an event like the recent National Prayer Breakfast. Never one to miss an opportunity to talk about himself, he spent over an hour in his rambling and meandering address spewing falsehoods, repeating his many personal grievances and delivering insulting personal attacks on his perceived enemies. This is a […]
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Even the Scouts are fair game now? | Letter
Imagine moving to remove support for an organization that has given our young people so much.
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Maine’s Right to Repair legislation should also include electronics | Letter
Anyone who purchases a device should be able to repair it if it breaks. This seems like it should be common sense, but in many states there aren’t laws that protect repair. Manufacturers do their best to restrict our ability to fix our devices by withholding access to the parts, tools and information we need. […]
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A sad display at Bath Iron Works | Letter
Passing through Bath last Sunday, I was sickened to see Bath Iron Works festooned with flags in anticipation of a visit by the secretary of war. Simply put, Donald Trump, Pete Hegseth and their ilk are deadly enemies of the Constitution, democracy and every American. The flags at BIW should have flown upside down. Stephen […]
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A refreshing reminder of Christ’s teachings | Letter
After reading Abbey Hamilton’s Feb. 5 op-ed, “MAGA is antithetical to the teachings of Christ,” I wish to applaud her coherent, intelligent, truthful essay. Well done. It is refreshing and hopeful that a teenager can see, and speak to, the so-called white “Christian ” nationalists who twist and outright lie about what living Christ’s message […]
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Inspired by student’s wisdom in op-ed on Jesus’ teachings | Letter
Commendations to Abbey Hamilton, junior at Yarmouth High School, for her excellent op-ed on Feb. 5 (“MAGA is antithetical to the teachings of Christ“). Many Christian readers put the Hebrew Bible and the Christian scriptures on an equal footing of faith, but Jesus said he came to fulfill the scriptures, and he replaced the law […]
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With no guarantee of stability, we had to leave Maine | Letter
Our decision to move away, after 20 years here, is not about luxury.