The current occupant of the White House is an embarrassment and his policies of a mere seven months in office have been disastrous domestically and in terms of foreign affairs. In a recent press conference, he assured the press that Afghanistan was in no way similar to what happened in Vietnam, but the parallels speak […]

New England Clean Energy Connect’s advertising propaganda is sickening. Let’s look at some facts: FACT: New England is known as the exhaust pipe of America . . . whether we get clean or polluted air to breathe depends completely on wind direction. FACT: Despite this, Maine still has the cleanest air in New England because […]

I am writing to calm the anxiety caused by us leaving Afghanistan. It is a big mess right now, but we had to bite the bullet and leave some time. It could have been on May 1 or Sept. 1, or maybe 10 years from now. Either way this mess was inevitable. We needed to […]

Please. Now is the time to reconsider and step up. Please? With illness rising, we’re at a crucial point as far as our chance to return to normal in our battle against COVID. And now children are also in danger from the brutal and highly contagious Delta variant. The virus needs hosts to continue to […]

Virtually all responsible scientists agree that climate change is a crisis, but not a crisis that will “come to a head” tomorrow. It is a crisis many years in the making. The world is not going to fry into a lifeless ball of steamy dirt in the next 10 years. But the Earth is slowly […]

A top priority for Lewiston Superintendent Jake Langlais and the Lewiston School Committee is the health and safety of all students and employees. When dealing with health and safety, experts in the field should be the guiding voices — not the loudest, the politically correct, or the emotional. With the recommendation of the superintendent the […]

Biden has pulled out of Afghanistan without getting everyone who helped us out, too. It’s just like the disgraceful way we pulled out of Vietnam. Since we promised them protection, we should have airlifted them and their families out. Congress continues to try to bankrupt us. Pennies go to real infrastructure. There was the pledge […]

The U.S. House should welcome the Senate’s passage of a budget resolution that includes a pathway to citizenship for undocumented young adults brought to the U.S. as children, also known as Dreamers. The House already passed a pathway to citizenship through the American Dream and Promise Act in March, so it should be a no-brainer […]

According to a recent Reuters poll, the U.S. ranks last out of 46 countries in media trust. In a country protected by the First Amendment, one would hope that an open and free media would be the envy of the world. For many years, the U.S. ranked high internationally in media trust. The New York […]

Where are our school leaders? During the ’50s and ’60s polio era, schools stepped up. During first decade of this century and the H1N1 influenza outbreak, schools stepped up. For the life of me, I cannot understand why our school leaders are not only stepping up, they are walking away. Shame on them. Masks should […]