As a property owner and taxpayer in Fryeburg, I am deeply frustrated by the recent actions taken against Rep. Laurel Libby in the Maine State House. Regardless of one’s personal opinions on the issue, the fact remains that she was exercising her First Amendment right to free speech when she expressed her views on social […]

Dictator Vladimir Putin hates America, and he uses propaganda to destroy everything it stands for. Putin is a war criminal who will kill anyone who threatens his reign. He can never be trusted. President Donald Trump is no longer the leader of the free world. He is President Putin’s doormat. MAGA and Trump get their […]

The March 16 Maine Sunday Telegram reported that the USDA canceled contracts to continue providing food and funding to Maine schools and nonprofits for three more years. Really? They’re attempting to save money by taking food from hungry kids? More shame on this new administration. If these fat cats ever felt pangs of hunger, they’d […]

The United States Congress is ceding its power as an equal branch of our democracy to the Executive Branch. It is important to have three co-equal branches of the federal government, as was designed by the Founding Fathers. Congress should be the deliberative body that enacts laws designed to benefit the people, all the people, […]

President Trump is terribly misinformed regarding tariffs. The reason American industries, factories and other enterprises have moved to foreign countries is due to the fact that labor costs are cheaper in those areas, resulting in lower costs on those products sold here at home. Warren Buffet, a financial wizard, described the implementation of tariffs as […]

All our lives, until January of this year, we have been very proud to be Americans. That has all changed in the last month. How can anyone be proud of a country that: • threatens our former closest friends and allies with tariffs and lack of backing and mocks their leaders. • tries to rewrite and […]