Sen. Susan Collins should vote against the current reconciliation bill. The Congressional Budget Office estimated that the cuts to Medicaid in the bill will make 39,000 Mainers lose their health insurance. The last thing Maine needs is fewer people who can afford to go to the doctor, more people putting off treatment they need or […]

It is the best of times and the worst of times for our First Amendment. A letter writer’s accusation that the Maine Trust for Local News and the mass media are carrying out a censorship campaign against President Trump or anything with a conservative bias (“Where are the conservative letters?” June 17) certainly dovetails nicely […]

Never forget that autocrats are ultimately failures. When they make mistakes, those mistakes are often enormous. Consider Putin: Faced with an aging and declining population, he got the brilliant idea that the perfect solution was to create a war with a large neighboring country with a similar language and culture, who could have been a […]

Maine and the U.S. are facing real problems. One is a health care crisis, particularly in rural areas, that will be made worse by the proposed cuts to Medicaid (and perhaps Medicare) to pay for tax cuts to those who need it least. More health care workers are needed, but the GOP is targeting immigrants, […]

My hope in writing this letter is to prompt readers to reflect on their own health care experiences and ask: “What kind of care do I deserve?” and “Are my providers truly meeting my needs?” I work as an outpatient mental health therapist in rural Maine. In 2024, I enrolled in a neurofeedback training program […]