It’s time to sit the federal House of Representatives down and tell them to stop the foolishness about impeachments and get busy doing the job its members are paid to do. If necessary, lock the doors, deny vacations or leaving early Thursdays, and get to work. They need to stay in their seats until they […]

Maine is in the midst of a housing crisis that’s not going to fix itself. Extremely low-income households like mine face emergencies every day. Housing costs have outpaced income for far too long. Voucher programs like Section 8 have a years-long waitlist of over 15,000 households. Those waitlists are much longer for those without children. […]

It’s nice that Gov. Janet Mills will use some of our surplus to help immigrants and the homeless. However, we have no serious plan for here or at the border. I would suggest we find underutilized government facilities and use them as a staging area for temporary orientation, including food and shelter. Other functions could […]

Having worked as a building and plumbing inspector for the city of Lewiston for 31 years prior to my retirement, I had the pleasure of working with David Hediger for nearly 20 of those and saw him develop into one of the best in his field. In my opinion, his knowledge of code and planning […]

I write to encourage the Legislature to pass the Maine Trails Bond (L.D. 1156). Trail use has increased significantly over the past few years, resulting in wear and damage. This, combined with recent extreme weather events, makes the $30 million investment the bond would provide even more important for addressing maintenance and repair needs. Very […]

I write in response to Joe Mailey’s letter (“Renters are taxpayers and deserve same notifications,” Jan. 27). Rarely do I agree with Joe, but in this instance I am totally in agreement. Renters should be given written notice like property taxpayers when a project is built in the neighborhood, since they ultimately do pay property […]

On Jan. 30, the Sun Journal ran an article about the Maine Housing proposal to grant $1.4 million to open a warming shelter that would permit homeless residents to get warm. Although this proposal seems a step in the right direction, the state has a long way to go to adequately address Maine’s housing crisis. […]

The Maine Department of Transportation reports online annual statistics on motor vehicle crashes with bicycles, including those resulting in fatalities, serious injuries or no apparent injuries. The five-year average cyclist crashes resulting in serious injuries was 150.6 cyclists between 2019 and at the time of this letter. Additionally, an average of 1.6 fatalities resulted in […]

I’m writing to draw attention to a critical piece of legislation that is being proposed. Specifically, L.D. 1359, which is An Act to Provide an Opportunity for Resentencing Individuals Who Were Sentenced for Crimes Committed as Juveniles. If this bill is passed, the judicial system would be restricted from imposing a sentence of imprisonment on […]

Rudolph Ziehm doesn’t like the Electoral College (“Popular vote bill ‘makes perfect sense to me’,” Jan. 25). That’s his right. But L.D. 1578 is riddled with technical problems, violates the Maine Constitution’s residency requirements for voter eligibility, is incompatible with ranked choice voting and would undermine Maine’s exceptional method of allocating electoral votes by congressional […]