Question 1 was bought and paid by big oil and gas. It’s becoming common practice for opponents of the Clean Energy Corridor to present falsehoods as “facts.” In a recent letter in these pages, the author lists a series of unfounded statements he claims are “facts,” which is misleading. His talking points are straight out […]

In his recent Lewiston Sun Journal op-ed (“Maine is not a haven of white-collar office workers,” Aug. 22), Thomas Farley expressed his opposition to President Biden’s proposal to create a pathway to citizenship for people who are living in the United States as undocumented immigrants. Farley claims that, by helping people get the opportunity to […]

Some Republican governors — DeSantis (Florida), Abbot (Texas), Ricketts (Nebraska), Reynold (Iowa) and others, also pastors of some fundamentalist churches — are encouraging their supporters to get sick and/or die by telling them not to get vaccinated. Some of their followers will die in agony in the ICU, unable to breathe due to COVID. Some […]

Andrew Lewis’ letter in the Aug. 29 Sun Journal (“Auburn committee failed with mask choice vote“), hit the nail squarely on the head. It’s way past the time when this foolish masking and vaccination issue was put to rest. How any parent could send their child to school unmasked if school masking is optional boggles […]

Now that we’re seeing the failure to meet our objectives in the war in Afghanistan and the lives lost, we can now look forward to our next war: the one against the COVID virus. The enemy has one objective, to kill as many as possible. This enemy cannot strategize like a human enemy. It achieves […]

Youth need time outdoors to be happy, healthy, connected and curious. A troubling report in the Portland Press Herald stated, “In Maine and across the country, the number of adolescents who attempt suicide has risen dramatically.” We have an immediate opportunity to care for ourselves and our youth with more exposure to the natural world. […]

At its Aug. 18 meeting, the Auburn School Committee voted to no longer require masks in schools, leaving our students and faculty at risk of sickness and death. This display of moral cowardice is disgusting. With the exception of two committee members, they elected to ignore the advice of experts, parents and the community. The […]

Our so-called president is a global disgrace of epic proportion. His Middle East policies are an open door welcome mat for another terrorist attack on America. Has America forgotten 9/11? Biden is following Obama’s agenda to a tee. The mess Biden put us in now in Afghanistan should have never happened. He has no exit […]

Since 1972 I have spent a significant part of each year on Richardson Lake. I have found it to be a quiet, pristine habitat for all the flora and fauna that is treasured in Maine. This environment has been preserved and protected by a settlement agreement for the upper Androscoggin River water storage and the […]

It has been a longstanding axiom that those who stand for nothing will fall for anything, especially in this present climate of racial shaming. Therefore, the Lewiston School Committee would do well to proceed very slowly in adopting an “anti-racism” policy when more than semantics are at issue here; racism as a free-standing construct or […]