While most of us were asleep, Stephen stood outside what used to be his house, watchingfirefighters battle the flames that consumed everything he had. As a Red Cross volunteer, I wasthere offering comfort and support as Stephen tried to make sense of a night that changedeverything. I’ll never forget the image of him clutching a […]
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Please listen when domestic violence victims say they’re afraid | Letter
Fifty years ago, my friend, Elizabeth Bruneau, was killed in Lewiston by her husband, RobertBruneau. At the time, I was a new nursing student in training at CMMC. A few years earlierLiz and Bob had lived upstairs from me in Auburn. On Dec. 5, 1975, Liz came to visit her mother at CMMC. She told […]
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Gubernatorial candidates should focus on Mainers’ needs instead of grandstanding against Trump | Letter
They should build their platforms on the positivity of bipartisan cooperation.
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Don’t shield children from hard history lessons | Letter
My 11-year-old daughter and I recently watched “Eleanor the Great,” a movie about someone’s experience during the Holocaust, which was highly recommended to me by one of my seventh grade students. While of course sad, the film was also filled with humor and warmth. Our daughter is interested in this topic and history in general, […]
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Hegseth should apologize for denigration of beloved children’s book character | Letter
As a former children’s librarian, I am appalled and offended by the total lack of sensitivity on the part of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. His recent use of a beloved picture book character, Franklin the Turtle, to illustrate his war mongering is an insult to both the field of children’s literature and to the […]
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Same as it ever was | Letter
Before we fulminate against MAGA, remember that Bill Clinton was Trump-lite, then recall how shamelessly Democrats circled the wagons around this reckless philanderer who practically wrote his own kompromat. Clinton, like Trump, misused his office to solicit favors, often of a sexual variety. Clinton, like Trump, parlayed his power and influence into shady financial deals. […]
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Conservative readers have been abandoned | Letter
This newspaper should be ashamed of itself for its blatantly biased headline on a recent story regarding Sen. Susan Collins supporting a 2026 referendum barring transgender students from sports teams and private spaces. The headline was “Sen. Collins signs Maine petition for initiative to restrict transgender rights.” Casting this issue as a restriction of transgender […]
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Thanks to Maine’s newspaper carriers | Letter
I cherish my morning paper.
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Write Platner off at your peril | Letter
I wish to respond to the Nov. 28 op-ed by Jeffrey Evangelos of Friendship (“Graham Platner has a Blackwater problem”). My first response to Evangelos is: Has he seen Graham Platner at a town hall? If not, he should attend one. Platner fills auditoriums. He creates a buzz. He speaks of issues that are near […]
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Sincere apologies to Maine’s Somali people | Letter
I wish to apologize to our dear Somali friends and neighbors for the recent insults leveled at them by President Trump. I very much hope they know that many, many Americans strongly disagree with Mr. Trump’s extremely unfortunate statements. Unlike Mr. Trump, many of us very much appreciate Somalia’s proud and noble history, and the […]