As a Norwegian American, I felt compelled to write to the Nobel Peace Prize committee last year after President Trump begged for the prize because of all the wars he said he had ended. He didn’t know that the Norwegian public detests begging and boasting because of a principal called janteloven, which our ancestors unwittingly […]

Israel has found another way to murder Palestinian babies. So far they’ve shot, blown apart, burned and starved them. But with the onslaught of winter, they are now blocking aid organizations that are carrying blankets and warm clothing, and many infants have frozen to death. Altogether something like 40,000 infants have been deliberately killed by […]

I am writing in response to the recent letter to the editor regarding the irresponsible coverage by the Maine Trust for Local News of Graham Platner’s candidacy (“Paper’s love of Platner is irresponsible,” Jan. 1).  I agree with the author regarding the preferential publicity given to this senatorial candidate by the recent coverage, but am […]

Although it may seem inconsequential to many, we all should be alarmed at the termination of The Earth Observer, a NASA publication with a 37-year history of reporting on the salient observations of NASA’s space effort to understand the makeup and evolution of planet Earth.   Unfortunately, the impacts of human habitation of planet Earth […]

We invaded Afghanistan and toppled the Taliban in 2001. Millions were displaced, hundreds of thousands of Afghans died and thousands of U.S. and allied service men and women were killed or suffered terrible injuries. Maine had the highest death rate per capita of any state. Today, the Taliban is back in power. We invaded Iraq […]

No matter how we slice it, examine it, segment it or consider it, the Trump administration is a death cult, all manners of death, apathetic and hideously cruel, unfeeling death, and their actions force us to confront our own relationship with different brands of death. Faraway, “indirect ” deaths foisted upon “faceless” millions cannot compete […]

I read Maine Turnpike Authority Executive Director Andre Briere’s letter to the editor response, “E-ZPass will take it easier on Mainers,” in the Jan. 1, 2026 paper. He stated that Maine is not a pay-by-plate facility. I’d like to ask Mr. Briere why. Many other states are pay-by-plate. It’s obvious that the Maine Turnpike Authority […]