I read, with sadness, that the portrait of former U.S. Sen. George Mitchell has been banished from the Maine State House by House and Senate members. Like Mitchell, many older Mainers were the children or grandchildren of poor immigrants who barely graduated from high school. But also, like Mitchell, these Mainers were intelligent and blessed […]

The Maine State Legislature is currently considering whether or not to fund LD 814, the Older Mainers Act. This act would provide needed funding for Area Agency on Aging (AAA) services that help older Mainers age safely at home. We are asking all Mainers to support this legislation. Maine’s AAAs provide programs and services that […]

Mainers should take note of how our congressional delegation voted on the recent War Powers Resolution. Though this bill was never expected to clear the House of Representatives or the Senate, it marks on the record how our delegation views our country’s latest incursion to the Middle East. Sen. Collins and Rep. Golden both opposed, […]

A March 10 letter said that voters were in an “absolute rush to ‘dump’ Janet Mills” as the Democratic Senate nominee. Many of us are grateful for Mills’ long service, while recognizing that a generational change in Washington, D.C., is overdue and necessary if our republic is to survive. I greatly respect Mills, and am […]

I just read a March 11 letter from a Maine voter who was dismayed at what what he sees as a lack of choice in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate (“Where are the true progressive candidates for Maine?”) . This particular voter felt neither of the frontrunners, Janet Mills or Graham Platner, offered […]

Mark LaFlamme’s coverage of the women inmates at the Maine Correctional Center was long overdue (“Maine women inmates accuse transgender prisoner of harassment,” March 4). Men, as a group, pose a danger to women in prison — this is recognized internationally in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and by the separation of sexes provision in […]

I watched President Trump’s State of the Union address and found myself asking: “Is Trump living in a glass bubble in another world?” I realize he is talking to his base and making claims to minimize the expected Republican loss in the upcoming fall elections. However, it took the longest speech on record to make […]