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letter to the editor
Does this presidency have a tipping point? | Letter
Maine voters cast 378,000 ballots for President Trump in 2024. What’s it costing us? The Iran war, so far, is estimated at $30 billion (Maine’s share would be a few billion), mostly for stuff we blow up. Trump promised to be president of peace, to end the Russia/Ukraine war, and now he wants to bomb a […]
‘No Kings’ makes way for Janet Mills | Letter
The governor knows how to stand up to bullies, something Maine needs in the U.S. Senate.
Let’s keep hope alive in Maine | Letter
In the face of our current administration’s daily chaotic, abusive, immoral and inhumane declarations, it is only human to defend oneself by retreating into a kind of numbness. This response is, in fact, a survival instinct — essential to our ability to keep on going. Yet even in this state, I believe we can still […]
If Trump wants us to pay for war, he should ask us | Letter
We are now entering the second month of Donald Trump’s fraught war of choice and we still have no better idea why we have entered it than when we started. In his meandering speech to the American public April 1, he ping-ponged through a menu of contradictory goals, from “we have already won” to “we […]
Ben Midgley is the outsider Maine needs | Letter
Maine politics is full of big promises and louder rhetoric, but young Mainers are looking for something simpler: a government that works, leaders who are honest and a state where we can afford to build a life. My generation is starting careers, paying off loans and struggling to keep up with rising costs — all […]
What does the gas price spike mean to you? | Letter
A quick online search shows that gasoline purchases in the United States average about 377 million gallons a day. If the average increase in the cost of gas is about $1 per gallon, it means that consumers are paying an additional $377,000,000 a day, or some $2.6 billion a week. I know what it means […]
Auburn library decision hurts Minot children | Letter
The town of Minot is no longer allowed to access Auburn Public Library’s services using a financial arrangement that has been in place for the past 20 years (“Auburn library declines to renew Minot contract,” April 4). A big problem, as I see it, is not that Minot supposedly was not paying its fair share, it […]
Susan Collins was right about President Trump | Letter
“… there will be no ‘new’ Donald Trump.”
Shenna Bellows would be a great governor | Letter
I first came to know Shenna Bellows as a fellow Peace Corps volunteer in Panama in 2001. I was impressed by her good humor, organizational skills and serious work ethic. I’ve followed her career since we both returned to Maine to make our state a better place. My son was employed in the American Civil […]