Citizens of Auburn need to wake up. What is wrong with our city leaders? They see money in the short term so they give permission to strip and destroy the land around our drinking water. That will lead to more pollution in the lake and will mean we will have to spend even more tax […]

LD 1748 — a bill that would eliminate the requirement for a town to hold a school budget referendum vote unless the district receives a sizeable citizen petition to do that — is another scheme that I feel has been put forward by the teachers unions to raise taxes for the school budget every year […]

At the recent Lobster Festival, the mayor of Auburn was announcing a band. In his introduction of the members, he stated some were from the “the city across the river that shall not be named.” At least half of the people in the crowd were from Lewiston, and this is not the first time he […]

Guns don’t aim themselves and pull their own triggers. Millions of people own guns and don’t choose to shoot others. More gun laws would only limit law-abiding people from protecting their family or themselves. Laws only work for the people who follow the rules. Others who are mentally stressed, unheard and determined can and will […]

I could not agree more with Jeff Ham’s letter (“Auburn leaders should step back, listen to residents,” May 9). It is painfully obvious that the mayor and most members of Auburn’s City Council and Planning Board are not the least bit interested in considering what citizens want in terms of development. Why else would the […]

In the film “The Verdict” there’s a touching summation given to a jury by Paul Newman, in defense of a comatose woman who’s been left that way through a hospital’s malpractice. For me, it’s the most remarkable speech in film history — and in a real way that hospitalized person can be viewed as a […]

We are living in a very dangerous time. The war in Ukraine was started in 2014 when the U.S. played a major role in overthrowing the democratically-elected president of Ukraine. U.S. military advisors and Central Intelligence Agency personnel were placed in Ukraine. The U.S. helped place a massive amount of troops and military equipment along […]

Without getting into the intricacies of infrastructure, I wonder why we haven’t heard of the increased cost of running the city of Auburn with all the new development. Just think about the added teachers, more firemen, police, highway department, road repair and school bus drivers, and it just keeps going. This does not even take […]

LD 1619, An Act to Improve Maine’s Reproductive Privacy Laws, was heard May 1 by the Legislature’s Judiciary Committee. The bill is centered on abortions, and calls for a factual report to the Department of Health and Human Services on each abortion. The patient is to remain anonymous. What will be omitted from the report […]

Guns are a big problem. I heard the news where they said a man killed five people next door to him because they wanted him to stop shooting outside of his house — and that’s the reason he killed five people. There was also a man who killed someone and then went to an overpass […]