Sixty years ago, my family began a long struggle with substance use disorder. Our loved one became addicted to prescription pain medication. We lost her 20 years later to the ravages of that addiction. Stigma, shame and ignorance kept our family’s burden hidden, and so treatment never arrived for her. All of us were wounded. […]

The plan is for a utility in Quebec to create electricity from water power and for Maine, i.e., Central Maine Power, to move that power to Massachusetts, providing residents there with much needed “clean” energy. The Quebec company should make money; CMP should make money; and folks in Massachusetts will pay their electric bills, in […]

I write in response to an Associated Press article printed in the Sun Journal June 3 regarding the Pentagon’s reaction to an order from the White House to hide the USS John S. McCain from view, while President Trump visited the Naval base in Yokosuka, Japan. The writer indicated that the vessel was named after […]

It seems to me that it is not dignified at all to ask for help to kill one’s self, even if terminally ill. In truth, there is no dignity there because it takes more strength and purpose to live, in spite of pain and suffering, leaving out entirely the debate whether there are eternal consequences. […]

People should be wary of individuals making appearances at public events or knocking on doors who are offering onsite “free swabs” of saliva for testing for cancer and other illnesses. Without a prescription from a medical provider for such a test, Medicare will not pick up the tab for the swabbing and testing. We are […]

The cruelty and ignorance concerning Western Maine Transportation Services’ riders expressed by County Commissioner Terry Brann is appalling. “A couple of us” decided that program shouldn’t be funded, Brann stated recently, as he believed only a few people use it. Yet WMTS cited 4,595 rides in 2018. Brann goes on to say he bets riders […]

Cal Thomas’ column, “Mueller’s upside down justice” (Sun Journal, June 5), should also try to explain away a letter from more than 1,000 former federal prosecutors detailing their opinions from the Mueller report: “Each of us believes that the conduct of President Trump described in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report would, in the case of […]

I don’t believe the claims coming from Central Maine Power about the proposed transmission line across Maine. I refer to a recent Associated Press report (based on Sun Journal reporting) that CMP sent out mailers to households in Maine claiming two very different numbers of jobs that would be created by CMP’s deeply unpopular corridor. […]

The Maine Legislature is considering a bill that would establish an expanded earned income tax credit. The EITC is very important, especially to the hard working Mainers who would benefit from it. If put into effect, EITC would allow low to moderate income working families keep more of what they earn at work in order […]

The proposed CMP corridor is a bad deal for the people of Maine, for many reasons. To begin with, there is no proof that the project would lead to a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The dam reservoirs in Quebec emit carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere and rotting vegetation has caused a buildup […]