I am a college student, studying to be a vet tech. To me, the correct and ethical treatment of animals is of the utmost importance. I feel the same courtesy and protections should be extended to our own species. Fetuses are human beings in a stage of development. They are no less valuable than a […]

I’m rebutting Edmund’s Lewis’ letter (“CMP is not the enemy,” March 21), a rebuttal of mine (“Our Power initiative deserves Mainers’ support,” March 11). Central Maine Power is, J.D. Power’s 2021 Electric Utility Residential Customer Satisfaction Survey reports, dead last among all utilities in the nation at customer satisfaction — 121st, with Versant close behind […]

Like many of my former colleagues at Bates College, I was disappointed by the results of the recent union election. I was also disappointed with the reporting on those results in the Sun Journal, which surmised that the outcome showed that staff were “generally satisfied with the way Bates treats them.” A more accurate assessment […]

The future of Social Security depends on society as a whole entity, doing the right thing in order to ensure balance and a possibility of having a future as a legacy for our children. You can lead a horse to water, but you can’t make him drink. You can buy your kids books and send […]

Today, I watched coverage of the Vietnam veterans and the thanks they received for their sacrifice. After serving in Vietnam, in the Navy, I and many others developed multiple diseases on the presumptive list for Agent Orange. All veterans that served in Vietnam received notice of presumptive exposure for diseases from Agent Orange. Congress and […]

There is a form of child abuse that goes unrecognized in our society today — it’s too subtle to be called that, but it’s there. It’s the abuse of children coming from all who claim the right to possess any and all weapons they wish to have, even if these can become the instruments of […]

As a resident of Maine I am writing concerning a proposed bill to expand abortion to full-term in the state. The overturning of Roe vs. Wade by the Supreme Court shifted the protection of Maine’s most vulnerable residents, the unborn, to state lawmakers across the nation. The current Maine law is quite broad already and […]

I am writing as a concerned citizen to urge legislators to vote “ought to pass” on LD 928, the Pine Tree Amendment.I am a hunter, fisherman, gardener and forager. The majority of my diet comes from food that I have either hunted, fished, foraged or grown myself. Constitutionally enshrining my and all Mainers’ rights to […]

In the Sun Journal’s coverage of the long-awaited counting of ballots in the Bates Employees & Staff Organization’s (BESO) vote to form a union, reporter Steve Collins’ conclusion and reporting demonstrate a lack of understanding of what workers faced at Bates in this campaign, or what workers in general face in most efforts to form […]

U.S. Rep. Jared Golden has championed our lobster industry in its pleas to keep using traditional lobstering gear. Of course our congressman understands that his advocacy is useless if there are no lobster to catch. He also knows that, due to climate change, the Gulf of Maine is warming three times faster than the oceans […]