A few weeks ago, when Gov. Janet Mills told President Donald Trump she would “see him in court,” it was a proud day to be a Mainer. In retaliation for our governor’s courageous words of defiance, the Trump administration sicced multiple federal agencies on Maine to withdraw, or threaten to withdraw, millions of dollars in […]

State policymakers are considering cutting child care funding — a mistake that could harm our children, economy and future. I urge them to maintain this critical support and ask the public to advocate against these cuts. Child care facilities suffered financially during the COVID-19 pandemic, leading to closures and staffing shortages. State funding helped stabilize […]

I recall the day-to-day updates the media treated us to concerning Hillary Clinton’s emails. The media clutched their collective pearls and nearly fainted in spasms of righteous indignation. I couldn’t help but notice last week that the Trump administration’s accidental sharing of sensitive war plans with a magazine editor garnered just a few paragraphs on […]

Gov. Janet Mills has consistently stood up for the rights of Maine’s transgender students in the face of the White House’s executive order banning transgender women from women’s sports. After being confronted, and threatened, on the issue in person by President Trump at a National Governors Association meeting recently, Mills told him that she would […]

On March 9, the Maine Sunday Telegram published a piece about the price Maine will pay for Trump 2.0. And for what? There are no swarms of immigrants coming across the Canadian border, nearly unmeasurable amounts of drugs. Surely it’s not about the budget with $2 trillion of tax cuts on offer for the wealthiest. […]

I want to thank Victoria Hugo-Vidal for speaking out against the Trump deportation policies in her March 23 column. She is spot-on. These deportations are brutal, vindictive, intimidating and, very possibly, illegal. The message is clear: whether someone is a Lebanese doctor with a valid visa working to save American lives or a Venezuelan with […]

Women make up 58.7% of workers in Maine aged 16 and older. In 2024, more young women than men had a bachelor’s degree. They are mothers, doctors, lawyers, engineers, scientists, teachers, CEOs, caregivers and much more. A new fight for women’s autonomy faces a president who rewards conservative financial supporters by enacting their restrictive vision […]

In his March 9 Maine Sunday Telegram op-ed (“Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, Gov. Mills chose the wrong hill to die on“), Charles Todorich lambasted Gov. Mills for her reply to President Trump’s threats to our state. I believe that Mr. Todorich, in envisioning our governor’s “hill,” has confused the background and the foreground. The issue that […]

I am writing in response to the March 9 op-ed stating that Gov. Mills chose the “wrong hill” to die on. What I saw in her interaction with President Trump was someone courageously standing up to a bully. She didn’t choose the fight. He called her out about a policy that she did not establish. […]

Charles Todorich spent a lot of time giving us a Civil War history lesson (“Unlike Joshua Chamberlain, Gov. Mills chose the wrong hill to die on,” March 9) and then failed to explain what it had to do with Gov. Janet Mills telling Trump that Maine will not be bullied and that she will do […]