As you report (“Maine property taxes are high. What can lawmakers do about it?” Sept. 25), property taxes in Maine are hurting people on fixed incomes, which includes many in retirement. Attempts to rein in costs include the defunct 2022 stabilization program, rebates on property taxes, increased revenue to towns and a tax deferral program. However, […]

We have a president of this country blaming American voters for not voting for him and for exercising their rights to vote. He is going after blue states and blue cities; going after cumulative individuals who have exercised their right to vote.    Trump, and his associates by their acquiescence, have decided that it is all right […]

This administration is pushing people out of health care programs to fund tax breaks for the wealthy while undermining trust in vaccines that protect us from deadly diseases. That is not just reckless; it is dangerous. I know what’s at stake. In the early 1960s, before the measles vaccine, my son contracted the illness. It […]

Here we go again. I read Jim Fossel’s column on the Maine Senate Democratic primary (“Democratic Senate field isn’t waiting around for Janet Mills,” Sept. 28) with interest and then, growing astonishment — that he did not once even mention that we now have a semi-open primary system.  That is, independent voters, who are unenrolled […]

I was born, raised, educated and employed in Maine for most of my long life and have always been proud of that. However, having just returned from a “bucket-list” trip to Hawaii, I learned something that made me angry and very disappointed in our state. Hawaii’s plentiful and wondrous beaches are all open to the […]