A few years ago, a dear friend suffering from depression and alcohol addiction committed suicide with a firearm. A recent report by the Maine Monitor found gun suicides by older adults in Maine and across the country are increasing. This tragic trend, especially in rural communities, is thought to be due to high rates of […]
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Vote for Question 1 to preserve free and honest elections in Maine | Letter
On Nov. 11, 2025, I hope to quietly celebrate my 101st birthday. I walk with difficulty, have degenerative arthritis, a fractured spine and partial vision in my right eye. I am a WWII U.S. Navy veteran of the Pacific Ocean war against the Japanese Empire. My ship landed 800 U.S. Marines of the Sixth Division […]
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Question 1 is bad for democracy, bad for Maine | Letter
The originators of referendum Question 1 (pertaining to absentee voting and a voter ID requirement) have many pernicious goals, foremost, under the cynical guise of voting security, the hidden but obvious attempt to tip results to the right. We should know of one effect of Question 1 that is not commonly mentioned. The Legislature’s roll-out […]
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Augusta turns out for 1920 Edgar Jones film | Letter
Many thanks to the more than 100 people who came to see an Edgar Jones silent film at the Augusta Colonial Theater on Oct. 4. In the early 1920s a Jones film at the Colonial was usually a sold-out affair, but more than 100 years later his locally filmed movies still have the power to […]
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Mainers should see through Republicans’ wind power smokescreen | Letter
If only they’d be honest about their loyalties to fossil fuel interests.
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A solution on real estate taxes for Maine seniors | Letter
A revenue-neutral approach that would be of major benefit to Maine seniors is to freeze their real estate taxes at the current (or other) level, but let the taxes that would otherwise be paid accumulate, with interest, to be paid upon the person’s transfer of the property. The municipalities would receive the benefit of all […]
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Get the record straight on America’s wars | Letter
I am writing to correct the misapprehension of one of your readers who wrote in a letter published on Sept. 21 (“Politically, Maine isn’t what it used to be“) that the “Democrats always seem to get us into wars and the Republicans bail us out.” Just to set the record straight, the Republicans were responsible […]
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A case of faulty MAGA math | Letter
As I read Jim Fossel’s Sept. 14 column (“A good federal budget is not an omnibus budget“), I once again grow weary of a misleading statement too often promoted by the president and his supporters: “…more than half the country voted for Trump…” That is not correct. Trump, of course, won the Electoral College and […]
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Rita Pello keeps good things happening in Augusta | Letter
Augusta, we deserve good things. That is why I urge you to reelect Rita Pello as an at-large member of the Board of Education. During her term, she has supported alternate pathways to education, district-wide technological integration and equal access to services across neighborhood elementary schools. Our schools benefit from Rita’s understanding of educational systems. […]
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Hamas’ slaughter must not be minimized | Letter
On Oct. 4, 2025, days before the second anniversary of the Oct. 7 attacks in Israel, the deadliest day for Jews since the Holocaust, this opinion section published a letter minimizing Hamas’ brutal slaughter of 1,200 innocent concertgoers. The fact that Hamas raped hundreds of women, beheaded babies and took elderly people hostage on Oct. […]