This is regarding the May 14 letter by Anelise Feldman headlined “Rep. Libby’s rhetoric spoils high school running.” As I despair over the current political and social condition that we seniors are thrusting on the younger generation, the letter by Ms. Feldman brought not only joy but, yes, the banner for justice, peace, compassion and […]

Reading Brian Robitaille’s May 11 opinion piece, “It’s her hands that I remember,” was like a breath of fresh, non-Trump derangement syndrome air from the Maine Sunday Telegram, whose editorial pages, like those of the Portland Press Herald, are so politically biased and relentless in their maligning of President Trump and his Cabinet. Opinion’s front-page […]

Today 2 million Palestinians in Gaza are being starved to death while a three-month supply of food and other urgently needed humanitarian aid is being blocked by the Israeli army at the border. Israeli warships, for decades, have patrolled the Mediterranean Sea to deny aid from the rest of the world from reaching the people […]

I want to thank and compliment Victoria Hugo-Vidal on her very informative column on May 18 regarding the Digital Equity Act and how important its programs are to rural Maine. This act was included in a bipartisan infrastructure bill signed into law under the Biden administration. The bill included programs to improve high-speed internet and […]

Some of us remember John Lennon’s (of the Beatles) claim of the band being “more popular than Jesus” and the uproar that followed. Here we are, 59 years later, with a celebrity president who gets more coverage in each 24-hour period, every day, than Jesus or God — and nobody’s objecting. Even the evangelicals. His […]

I agree with the May 17 letter to the editor about the importance of not removing rails to make the Merrymeeting Trail. Land transportation efficiency increases from cars to buses and trucks to rail being the most efficient. This causes the carbon footprint to be reduced proportionately. Positives that Steven didn’t mention include that passengers […]

I write regarding the May 18 article “Why popes and other Catholics pray to the Virgin Mary.” The Associated Press article in the Maine Sunday Telegram, about the Virgin Mary, gave a good, generalized explanation of the Catholic devotion to Mary, the mother of God. I noticed that on the apparitions of Mary, the article […]

The current Israeli administration keeps trying to defeat Hamas with military action. In trying to do so, it keeps killing far more bystanders than militant members of Hamas. The strategy simply guarantees the eventual killing of hostages and a new supply of militants. A survey of Palestinians shows that most would prefer an alternative to […]

As I watch the horrors of this administration unfold, I am struck by how much of this was predicted but not inevitable. We remember Orwell’s “1984,” and its depiction of a dictatorial society. Then there was Nostradamus and his predictions for our time with plagues (COVID and measles), natural disasters (climate change) and the creation […]