I write again as the mother of an adult son with schizophrenia. I first wrote (“Schizophrenics need proper treatment,” Jan. 19) when he was about to become homeless and hurt himself or someone else in his unmedicated psychotic state. Through heroic police intervention he was finally hospitalized and, after three long years, admitted to a […]

President Biden can’t have it both ways; milquetoast calls for a ceasefire in Netanyahu’s Gazan genocide and imminent mass slaughter of refugee civilians taking refuge in the overcrowded city of Rafah, all the while spiriting weapons of mass destruction off to Israel in an act of overt hypocrisy. The Biden administration’s latest arms package includes […]

Congratulations to the new Sweatt-Winter Child Care and Early Education Center at the University of Maine at Farmington. My thanks to Gov. Janet Mills and U.S. Sen. Susan Collins for helping to secure the funding needed for this new state-of-the art center for our youngest learners, as well as a teaching lab for UMF students […]

The word “woke” is a term used with disdain by right wingers like failed presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. If being caring and compassionate — and embracing diversity, equity and inclusion — makes me “woke,” then I’m 100 percent woke. Bob Mennealy, Lake Worth, Florida

You have published a few articles from 2022 regarding the rising costs of insulin and price caps, with the help of Sen. Susan Collins, for United States citizens. I am writing you with a focus on Mainers and our need for insulin, as we are no different than the rest of the country’s struggle on […]

There are a number of bills in the Legislature concerning gun safety. It appears that there is no or very little support from Republicans, with the exception of anything to do with mental illness. Sen. Trey Stewart said a couple of weeks ago that now is not the right point in time for the proposed […]

In Maine the Democrats hold the House, Senate and Blaine House, causing many problems. Democrats aim to make Maine a sanctuary state to bring in more undocumented immigrants, spending millions of taxpayers’ money on them while most Maine citizens are fighting just to get by. They want to make this a sanctuary state for transgender […]

Since the tragic mass shooting in Lewiston, all of us Mainers have been forced to face the gun violence crisis that’s been part of our state’s reality for too long. Lawmakers have introduced and advanced legislation to change this, for which I am grateful. In Maine, nearly 90% of firearm deaths are firearm suicides. Each […]

I was saddened by the news to close Heritage Manor in Winthrop. It was my first position as director of social services, and it was a wonderful, small nursing facility.  It will be a big loss for the community. North Country Associates is a great company, and its facilities have always been some of the […]

War is the worst that we humans can inflict on each other. Hamas, like that Russian megalomaniac Vladimir Putin, illegally invaded a neighboring country, causing widespread death and destruction. Hamas knows that Israel will always defend itself. Once the Hamas leaders got their families safely out of the country, they brutally attacked their neighbor, knowing […]