I think I know why all the shootings are going on in this country. It’s all the negative news you see day in and day out on the news media. This is in print, television and the internet. Never any good news shown, oh maybe a 30-second bump at the end. What do you think […]
letter to the editor
Peter Bourgelias: Golden ignores obstruction in Mueller report
Jared Golden’s “Unity of the country must come first” is a misleading and superficial piece of writing that does not properly address the full ramifications of the Mueller report. The most glaring weakness in the op-ed is Rep. Golden’s glossing over of the entire second volume of the report, which investigates whether the President committed […]
Edmund Lewis: Eliminate tobacco products
I am writing this letter to address a problem that has affected all life on earth for over 100 years and continues to cause both illness and death to a “huge”, but unknown number of humans world wide. I am talking about smoking, i.e. cigarettes. It is a known fact that tobacco use is a […]
Gerard Decoteau: Unfit for office
Donald Trump lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. I firmly believe that without Russian interference, he would not have prevailed in the Electoral College. He wanted James Comey to give Michael Flynn a pass. In an attempt to obstruct justice in the Robert Mueller investigation, he fired Comey and tried to fire Mueller. He […]
Norman Smith: I will not step aside
I read with great interest Joan Villani’s letter to the editor posted July 30. She asks where was the media and Democrats outcry when noted people — Madonna, Kathy Griffin, Johnny Depp and Robert DeNiro made negative statements about Donald Trump? This was in follow-up to: “Recently, President Donald Trump took a tongue-lashing from the […]
Sandra Howard: Hold CMP accountable
CMP is wedged between two connected scandals — their horrible billing problems and the disastrous corridor project the company is trying to shove through Western Maine. A former CMP executive said the company’s billing problems were so bad due to their focus on building a for-profit corridor. CMP is less interested in fixing the billing […]