President Trump’s unprovoked attack on Iran was the last straw for me. The attack was not vetted by Congress and was ill-planned. Trump reportedly ordered the attack in the middle of negotiations with Iran, during a plane ride to Texas. Shortly after giving the order, he made an appearance at a charity gala at Mar-a-Lago. […]

I believe President Trump must be removed from office and charged with crimes against humanity.  Trump could have continued to negotiate with Iran but decided, without provocation, to bomb it and, with Israel, to assassinate its leadership instead. This, along with the reported deaths of 165 people, most of them elementary school students, and no […]

The Environmental Protection Agency was started in 1970 by President Nixon, who recognized the negative effect human activities were having on the environment. In 2009, an “endangerment finding” was issued by the EPA in response to a Supreme Court decision determining that greenhouse gases were a form of pollution covered by the Clean Air Act. […]

Our freedom of speech and the freedom of the press are under pressure from multiple directions. Recent events make the danger impossible to ignore. When journalists like Don Lemon and comedians like Stephen Colbert are pressured simply for doing their jobs —documenting public events and asking challenging questions through satire — it sends a warning […]

I would like to share my enthusiastic support for Rick Bennett’s campaign as an independent candidate for governor.  As someone who has been successful in both the legislative and business arenas, Rick is uniquely qualified to solve problems including the need for better management and use of state government resources while keeping the costs of […]

The Somalians that I was referring to in my letter of Jan. 22 (“Mainers should let ICE agents do their job”), whom ICE proceeded to talk to, engage with, follow and/or detain, may not have broken the law — as in burglary, rape or stealing — but if their citizenship paperwork wasn’t in order to […]

My name is Charles Thelen, and I am the founder and president of the Midcoast Youth Activists organization. We have united high school students from the greater Midcoast Maine region to amplify youth voices and demonstrate the power of the next generation. Our mission is to eliminate the stigma surrounding youth involvement in activism. We […]