The planned June 14 military parade to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army raises many doubts about its actual purpose. By being on President Trump’s birthday, it will certainly be spun as a personal tribute to him — at great expense — an estimated $25 million to $45 million, not counting projected pavement […]

No one should have their land taken by the state without consultation or agreement, yet that’s precisely what the 1980 Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act has allowed to happen on Wabanaki land for the past 45 years, without the tribes having any say. This month, the Maine State Legislature has a chance to change that […]

It is universally acknowledged that the so-called “big, beautiful bill” imposes massive pain on low and middle income people, while transferring billions to the most wealthy. It will be particularly painful for rural states such as our own. Less visible are two small, ugly, and radically anti-democratic provisions buried in the bill: one restricts federal […]

In your May 22 article on the Republican budget bill, which passed the House by one vote, you state that Sen. Susan Collins and other Senate Republicans “have expressed concern about the health care cuts” in the bill. Collins has, for 28 years, been “concerned” about everything. Enough already. According to the Congressional Budget Office, […]

In response to the June 6 letter concerning the Second Amendment (“Wrong to suggest electorate would take up arms“), when that was passed in the late 18th century, it took maybe a minute to a minute and a half to reload a musket. The cyclical rate of fire for an M-16 is 700 to 900 […]

How is it that so many Americans think they are entitled to live in the richest country in the world while so many others suffer without what they need just to survive? It seems to me that the people in this country with the most still want more. It’s not “right” that they have to […]

I support Ms. Rachel’s speaking out on behalf of all children, including those in Gaza, whom Israel has killed and maimed in the tens of thousands, using bombs, incendiaries, tanks, artillery and starvation. The most horrific and depraved killing method is by sniper fire — IDF soldiers deliberately taking aim at the heads and hearts […]

Over the last few months, I have followed Rep. Laurel Libby’s house censureship case with great interest. What Rep. Libby and her supporters seem to have forgotten is that she was censured because she posted an image of a minor without the individual’s permission, not for her political views. As I understand it, she has […]