If voters want a candidate who is more than qualified to represent the people of Maine, knows a great deal about state appropriations and financial matters, values children’s education and understands that our infrastructure is a valuable resource of not only the citizens of our state but a vital tool to attract out-of-state businesses, then […]
Letters
Letters to the editor of the Sun Journal.
Joe Voisine: Is U.S. better off now versus 2 years ago?
Millions of Americans are paying taxes while President Biden is using our tax money to help Ukraine defeat Vladimir Putin, who is a carbon copy of Adolf Hitler, with $40 billion of taxpayer money going abroad. Meanwhile in this country, illegal border crossers will no longer be treated like criminals, but more like customers. While […]
Joseph Ziehm: World ‘addicted to apathy’ amid shootings
We thought after all the school shootings that laws would change, thinking it would close loopholes in mental health checks. Instead, we learned how morally bankrupt and void of humanity the National Rifle Association is. We’ve seen insanity for the past 20 years, such as hoaxes perpetuated by Alex Jones. It’s the world we live […]
Ron and Sue Dorman: Legislators are on citizens’ payroll, not NRA’s
We would ask our legislators, those from Maine and stewarding every state in the nation, to get off the National Rifle Association’s payroll if they are on it. Congressmen and women and the president of the United States are on the citizens’ payroll. Legislators, in stewardship of the people, with bipartisanship, regulate gun manufacturing and […]
George Bussiere: Biden should follow Reagan’s gas cost approach
When Ronald Reagan was president, there were gas lines all over the country and gas was going up and up. President Reagan threatened a windfall profit tax. And like magic, lines disappeared and the price of gas dropped. I wonder why Congress and President Biden can’t do the same. George Bussiere, Auburn
Judy Head: Candidate Rotundo devotes time, skill, effort to Lewiston
I was so pleased to hear Peggy Rotundo is running to represent Lewiston in the state Senate. She is wise, experienced and fair. No one has devoted more time, skill and effort supporting Lewiston’s residents than Peggy. I first met Peggy years ago in one of Lewiston’s elementary schools where she volunteered before her workday […]
Victoria Cohen: UMaine payment infuriating, in light of firings
Nine faculty were fired at the University of Maine at Farmington, and the UMaine system still has to pay Michael Laliberte, a man who didn’t work a day for his job, up to $615,000 (a $205,000 annual salary payment that can extend up to three years)? Where is the sense, the equity, the justice, in […]
Patrick Hale: Lack of effective UMaine leader ’embarrassing’
On July 24, 2019, I wrote a stinging rebuttal about University of Maine System Chancellor Dannel Malloy’s consistent failures of eight years when he was governor of Connecticut. I provided headline after headline, including “It’s Official, Governor Malloy is the Worst Governor in America,” “Has Dan Malloy lost his mind?,” and “Connecticut’s Mass Exodus Continues […]
Clem Bechard: It’s time to push back against Washington politicians
I wonder how long it will be before everyone wakes up and starts pushing back on the politicians in Washington. They care more for a war in Ukraine than their own people here in the U.S. I don’t care what side people are on, we have to start pushing back and fight for our welfare. […]
In rebuttal: Mark Wood: Life at conception is fact, not fiction
Elliott Epstein’s Rearview Mirror column (“Declining birth rates are unhealthy for hospitals and society,” May 22), was statistically instructive about this country’s declining birth rate, and the need to improve our immigration laws so jobs can be filled and our economy expanded. However, I found it troubling that Mr. Epstein used the common pro-choice misapprehension […]