Reporters Rachel Ohm and Joe Charpentier introduced readers to only one AmeriCorps service earlier this month. It’s important to remember that AmeriCorps funding also includes the Senior Corps. Over 100 seniors volunteer in the Senior Corps in York and Cumberland counties, serving in two capacities: as foster grandparents or senior companions. Foster grandparents volunteer at […]

In the 1860s, our country was divided over the issue of slavery. Today, everyone is against it. In the early 1900s, women’s voting was controversial. Is any man now willing to explain to his daughters why women should not vote? Today, everyone is for this. No serious person thinks we should have a segregated military, […]

I object to columnist’s Steve Collins’ ageist assumption that Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley, 91, would be incapable of leading the country if the top three officials were unable to do so (“An old Senate tradition needs to be put out of its misery,” May 2). A healthy man, Grassley would be infinitely more capable than […]

Earlier this month, a settlement was reached by the state of Maine with our USDA, via Gov. Mills, Attorney General Frey and USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins. Reaching a settlement in such lawsuits is an achievement. What if our governor and attorney general followed our state motto via their words after this settlement was reached? According […]

Are Republicans like they are because they were born that way or raised that way? Do they: lack empathy for the poor and downtrodden, here and abroad; lack respect and support for science, research, facts; hate those who are different from them ethnically, sexually, religiously and/or are immigrants; blindly follow authoritarian figures; support democracy, free […]

The American people face an existential threat to our democracy: white Christian nationalism. This advocacy, which supports the Trump administration’s crusade against people’s right to abortion, against transgender Americans, and advocates that America is a Christian country, must not stand. The Federalist Papers, created by Madison, Jay and Hamilton, rejected the concept of a religious […]