Any sane person is against war. As far as the proposed formal statement of our elected officials in Augusta as being against the war, fine, but I think they are forgetting they were elected to serve the voters of the state of Maine and related issues (Jan. 31). They should leave national and international matters […]

Why rush into another war when we have not finished the one in Afghanistan?We should not fear the Iraq leader when he knows we have the most weapons to retaliate against him and we are much more miles away than many United Nations members who want to wait longer.Our unemployment is increasing and more people […]

While the Bush administration drum beats ever louder for war it is not too late to stop this rush. In both the Senate and House there are efforts to rescind or at least modify the blank check for war passed last November. And, here in Maine, lawmakers are making a similar push at the state […]

I am writing this to announce for the first time in my life that I am ashamed to be a Mainer.The Portland City Council has adopted a resolution to stand against the president’s plan to disarm Iraq. On top of that, a state representative brought this same resolution before the Legislature in hope of having […]

Convincingevidenceto proceedWe respectfully disagree with Maine’s Democratic lawmakers who support an anti-war resolution. The case has convincingly been made to proceed against Iraq.Secretary of State Colin Powell’s presentation Wednesday was dramatic.U.N. weapons inspectors have been trooping across miles of countryside and combing through a massive amount of paperwork, looking for evidence that Saddam Hussein is […]

Affirmative action policies were supposed to help minority students get into top colleges, but there is evidence that the process hasn’t been helpful. A Harvard University Press book exploring a fairly narrow question — why aren’t there more black and Hispanic professors? — is about to take center stage in the affirmative-action debate.The book, “Increasing […]

“Ride ’em cowboy,” columnist Suzanne Fields yahoos to President Bush (Feb. 4).The “’em” this cowboy rides may be a horse of an apocalypse that brings death needlessly to hundreds of Americans and thousands of Iraqis.I do, however, agree with columnist Fields that “high noon” is a telling description of the president’s shoot-it-out-alone policy.And maybe “’em” […]

AUSTIN, Texas – Normally, I don’t bother to follow the doings of the far right. Having lived in Texas all these years, I figure I don’t have much to learn on that score. But I was much struck by a report in Salon, the online magazine, on the recent conference of the Conservative Political Action […]

WASHINGTON — Here’s how Maine’s members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes in the week ending Feb. 7. HOUSEMedicare payments Voting 195 for and 215 against, the House on Feb. 5 defeated a Democratic bid to increase Medicare payment levels for doctors and non-urban hospitals in a stopgap fiscal 2003 budget. Passed […]

Frank Greenwood’s letter comparing George Walker Bush to Adolf Hitler was insulting to all right-thinking Americans and is a prime example of how the anti-war movement is not really about being anti-war, it is about being anti-Bush (Feb. 3).To the best of my knowledge Bush isn’t planning on launching a blitzkrieg across Europe and killing […]