On June 14, there will be another opportunity for Mainers to demonstrate against the current administration in Washington, and here’s why I think Mainers should participate loudly, wherever they can. For decades now, Americans have accused presidents they didn’t like of being “fascists” and even portrayed them as Hitleresque. I have always taken Hitler comparisons […]

Recent years have tested one of Maine’s finest qualities: It’s a purple state where our identity as lovers of Maine outweighs our political differences. The Portland Hearts of Pine home opener last Sunday displayed all of our potential as Mainers united. The event was so totally about our state, from “MAINE” on our players’ jerseys […]

Three bills currently before the Legislature’s Committee on Veterans and Legal Affairs — LDs 38, 397 and 1149 — call for voters to present photographic identification to vote. LD 1149 proposes more than that, by severely limiting absentee voting and adding other requirements. Its provisions would create barriers that will block our constitutional right to […]

I’m a 75-year-old, ex-Catholic, agnostic atheist and a lifelong homosexual writing in reply to the article on Pope Francis and homosexuality in the April 25 Sun Journal. It was reported there that although the late pope endeavored to make the church more welcoming of LGBTQ+ Catholics, he nonetheless upheld the traditional teaching that homosexual activity […]

As a Catholic, Vice President JD Vance thought the AI photo that Donald J. Trump posted on social media, of himself as pope (Donald I?), was “funny.” As a Catholic, I find the photo appalling and a direct disrespect to the late Pope Francis and Catholics in general. Humility, truly the middle name of the […]

President Trump just can’t leave the trans issue alone, and true to form, he’d rather fight about it than find a reasoned solution. Republicans in the Maine Legislature are apparently of the same stripe. They have taken up the call with LD 926, “a committee amendment to HP 682 to ban biological males from participating […]

As practicing Catholics, we were deeply offended by President Trump’s recent post on the White House’s X account of a photoshopped picture of him posing as the new pope. Blasphemous, cruel, insensitive, infantile and mocking are words that come to mind. While 1.4 billion Catholics are still in a period of mourning, the president of […]

Margaret Chase Smith had 100 times the class of Sen. Angus King. First, he uses Paul Revere. That didn’t work. Now he’s trying to use this wonderful lady. Why doesn’t King stand on his own two feet and stop trying to stand on the shoulders of respected people (which he is not)? Donald Larrabee Scarborough