I write to address concerns raised in a letter to the editor regarding the warming center being supported by the city of Lewiston at Calvary United Methodist Church, 59 Sabattus St. (Mark Wood, “Clarification needed on county expenditures for unhoused,” Jan. 21). First, some general information about the City Mission Program at Calvary UMC. Seeing […]

I think it is important to judge politicians by what they do, rather than what they tell us they are going to before they get elected. Here are a few examples: LR 214: An Act to Require a Person to Show Photographic Identification for the Purpose of Voting, introduced by Sen. Matthew Pouliot, R-Kennebec. LR […]

I feel it’s wrong for mentally ill people who commit horrendous crimes to be allowed to go free after treatment. If they regain their mental health, and become aware of their deeds, they should have to serve time in a restricted area, not freed after treatment. I would like to see a new law, retroactive […]

I imagine what it would be like if most rich people became willing to pay their fair share of taxes, so that our country would have the necessary resources to fill everyone’s needs. Housing, proper medical care, food, transportation, etc. — I’m talking basic needs. There’s too much greed in this country; sooner or later […]

You can’t make this stuff up. The School of Social Work at the University of Southern California just announced that to avoid sounding anti-Black or anti-immigrant, it will “remove the term ‘field’ from our curriculum and practice and replace it with ‘practicum’.” It seems that “‘going into the field’ or ‘fieldwork’ may have connotations for […]

Some Republicans accuse people of being “woke” as if it’s an insult, something bad and something to be ashamed of. Until now I thought woke meant waking a person out of sleep. That’s not what woke currently means when used as a political weapon against people of color. In 2017, a new meaning of “woke” […]