With President Trump’s renaming of the Kennedy Center, renovating/rebuilding the White House and new plans to erect a triumphal arch, the administration should consider renaming the District of Columbia, Washington, D.C., would become “Donald’s City.” Some people may simply call it Trumpsville, recalling the movie “It’s a Wonderful Life,” in which George Bailey sees what […]

Kudos on Douglas Rooks’ Dec. 18 column, “Trump is not the only threat to the Constitution —look at SCOTUS.” His analysis of the Supreme Court was spot-on. The Roberts court has shown a consistent use of the “shadow docket” to allow executive orders to go through without any question and has ruled in favor of […]

I’m writing about the rather insulting letter I received from E-ZPass customer service today, specifically, the sentence that reads, “At this time, we request that you immediately refrain from evading tolls, and reimburse the outstanding toll amount of $_.__.”   The letter implies that the Maine Turnpike Authority is accusing me of stealing from them, when […]

Bates Professor William Hiss’ Dec. 17 letter to the editor (“Remember how much language matters“) is spot on. Words matter, and those who use words that terrorize, inflame or incite violence should be held responsible for the consequences. Words inciting violence toward Jews have spurred attacks worldwide. Jews were targeted and murdered at Pittsburgh’s Tree of […]

Why does this publication require a real name and place of residence for a letter writer and then allow online readers to use aliases to respond on its websites? This policy invites vitriol and often threatening responses. Readers don’t even see the worst that are reported as not being published. If everyone publicly stood by […]

NPR, PBS and CPB would never have lost their taxpayer funding if they followed thejournalistic model of reporting a complete story instead of a partial rendering of the incident orissue to fit a predetermined outcome. As a college radio station newsman in 1970, my manager, a senior, instructed me to collatethe hourly news feed from […]

I agreed with Karen Levine Egee’s op-ed, published back on July 7, that “people are basically good.” As I understand it, however, in America we have been trained by big business to believe that more is better: bigger houses, cars, better clothes, more money, etc. Too much competition. We have become slaves to our wants. […]