The letter by Ann Rankin in the Nov. 4 edition (“Republican disinformation has gone way beyond spin“) was excellent and a meaty summary of the administration’s unruly attempts at undermining our democracy. She concludes by interestingly pleading for a new word for “lies,” one that more strongly and uniquely denotes the truly damaging aspects of […]
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Our sacred public lands are under threat | Letter
The Trump administration is wrongly pushing for drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
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Report on Gardiner school board was misleading | Letter
Your recent coverage of the Gardiner-area school board meeting (“Parents’ rights groups, backed by conservative funders, bring fight to Maine school boards,” Nov. 19) was so blatantly biased and misleading. The people who you are trying to malign — a group of parents who simply want to make sure they have a voice in what’s […]
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Trump administration should be tried for extrajudicial killings | Letter
The movie “Nuremberg,” starring Russell Crowe, is now in theaters. It is a historical reflection of the trials following WWII. The Western Allies had defeated Nazi Germany and these trials were set up to determine what should happen to 22 senior Nazi officials following the war, in which they were responsible for the killing, in […]
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President was out of line on mortgage fraud comments | Letter
I don’t mind mortgage frauds being brought to justice. Lord knows I’ve spent years wondering if every penny was going to influence my mortgage. But I have a problem with my president calling them scum. It seems that he would have better things to do. Fred CheneyBowdoinham
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Ageist op-ed calls for a reality check | Letter
It is hard to know where to begin to address the ageist and inaccurate stereotypes in the Nov. 3 op-ed, “Maine’s elder politicians need to move along.” The condescending attitude that older adults need to step aside to visit children and grandchildren and then take naps is demeaning — and reflective of the writer’s own limited […]
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Columnist nails the challenges of the times | Letter
Best line in last Sunday’s paper, by Leslie Bridgers, in a column she wrote about a study in which Maine ranked No. 2 for states prepared for a zombie apocalypse (“If society collapses, Maine isn’t a bad place to be”): “I realized the study was just as applicable when the reanimated corpses were replaced with […]
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A slap in the face for Maine’s small-town libraries | Letter
The Maine Library Commission doesn’t seem to understand what it takes to keep many of our more endangered libraries going.
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Keep a close eye on Platner’s platitudes | Letter
A dry Graham cracker (sic) gets stuck in one’s throat, causing choking, and is mostly made of sugar. So it was, recently, at Graham Platner’s speech at the Chocolate Church. Quick, off-the-cuff one-liners and generic sound bites win votes — even when issuing from empty laborer’s outfits. Women cheered the loudest and got to ask […]
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Perspective needed on George Orwell | Letter
To understand socialism’s threat, a letter writer here recently advised us to read George Orwell’s “Animal Farm.” He should read more Orwell. Orwell was a socialist. Orwell’s words: “Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic socialism as I understand it.” Our […]