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The Legislature’s majority Republicans are doing their job responsibly. They inherited unaffordable Department of Health and Human Services programs from the previous eight years of Democratic majority. Those programs have run out of money. There are no more one-time federal s...

Marilyn Burgess of Leeds recently wrote (Jan. 13) that asked if, in these difficult times, “legislators also were willing to share the misery?” I am pleased to report when control of the Legislature changed hands in 2010, the new leadership immediately took steps to demonstrate...

President Barack Obama discussed moving toward a clean energy future in his State of the Union address. But Obama also said he is directing his administration to open more than 75 percent of America’s potential offshore oil and gas resources. These statements are contradictory: offshore oil...

Many people complain bitterly in letters to the Sun Journal about the government, taxes and “freeloaders” living off the system. We all benefit in some way from government functions such as Social Security, laws and law enforcement, courts, Homeland Security, transportatio...

On Jan. 26, the Maine Community Action Association released an update of its publication, Poverty In Maine. Not surprisingly, the report cited Maine as the "oldest" state in the nation due to Maine having the highest median age of any state. What is surprising is that Maine, at 10.1 percen...

If the state of Maine can deal out punishment in a reasonable amount of time to a state trooper who pleaded guilty to a charge of driving drunk, why can't the U.S. government deal out punishment to U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder for his part in the gun-selling operation known as Fast and Furio...

With the financial worldwide debt problem continuing, as it has, having no solution is like watching a snowball rolling down a mountainside. It gets bigger as it rolls along and consumes more and more people, as well as countries and governments and everything in its path as it gains momentum.

I'm sick and tired of the jabberwocky that comes from the debate about gay marriage. One side says that God intended for a marriage to be between one man and one woman. The other side says that they have equal rights and should have the right to be married. They are both wrong. The ...

We shake our heads at the government waste produced in Washington and Augusta and wonder why officials don't operate more efficiently. Since all politics are local, we may be able to find that answer closer to home, at 04271. Paris is one town, a town of 5,000 people, with two post offices...