While the news from Washington these days consists largely of confrontations between the White House and Congress, other serious concerns are being overlooked. The current administration is doing its best to ignore and suppress science. To that end, I hope that Sens. Susan Collins and Angus King and Rep. Jared Golden will support the Scientific […]

Maine needs to change its voting system for political primaries. More than 400,000 registered Maine voters can’t vote in the primaries. Why? Because they are not registered in a political party.  And many are not registered in a political party because the major parties are broken and are the cause for so much gridlock in […]

About the “open primaries” thing — assume that I am new in town and consider myself an informed citizen who keeps up with government. I want to register to vote. I would have to decide what party I want to affiliate with, or whether I want to be an “unenrolled” voter (a so-called independent). I […]

Patricia Fogg’s letter to the editor, “Fighting for America’s democracy,” was posted online May 8. I added an online comment the same day, asserting that the nation’s founders hated democracy. Fogg commented back (online) on May 10: “I also don’t really believe our Founders hated democracy, do you? Can you provide an example?” Well, yes, […]

Abortions and vaccines — I would never have thought that the two issues would be written about in the same article. It got me to thinking. For years the pro-choice crowds and most Democrats have been saying that a woman’s body is her temple; only she gets to decide what happens to her body and […]

Once again, Gov. Janet Mills and the environmentalists are expressing concern about plastics and foam products and, oh, yeah, cows passing gas. The people who believe in the climate-change hoax are saying that we must save the planet. That is crazy talk. The people on this planet can’t even save themselves. This planet will cleanse […]

I not only work at Central Maine Medical Center, but my family and I have been patients there numerous times. I include a partial listing of some of the hospital’s accomplishments: • Leapfrog A in Fall 2018; again Spring 2019; • Joint Commission advanced certifications in primary stroke care and four orthopedic specialties (total hip, […]

I am writing with regard to the Portland Press Herald article “More asylum seekers arrive in Portland,” reprinted in the Sun Journal on May 6. The article speaks of asylum seekers making their way up from Texas, of which I have no public opinion. What I do have an opinion about, and find offensive, is […]