President Trump has promised to cut off all federal funds from Maine if it fails to condemn a trans high school student. Should we focus on this above world peace, assistance to the less fortunate in the world and our declining image around the world? Much research is ongoing as to the causes of gender […]

The March 16 Maine Sunday Telegram reported that the USDA canceled contracts to continue providing food and funding to Maine schools and nonprofits for three more years. Really? They’re attempting to save money by taking food from hungry kids? More shame on this new administration. If these fat cats ever felt pangs of hunger, they’d […]

The United States Congress is ceding its power as an equal branch of our democracy to the Executive Branch. It is important to have three co-equal branches of the federal government, as was designed by the Founding Fathers. Congress should be the deliberative body that enacts laws designed to benefit the people, all the people, […]

President Trump is terribly misinformed regarding tariffs. The reason American industries, factories and other enterprises have moved to foreign countries is due to the fact that labor costs are cheaper in those areas, resulting in lower costs on those products sold here at home. Warren Buffet, a financial wizard, described the implementation of tariffs as […]

All our lives, until January of this year, we have been very proud to be Americans. That has all changed in the last month. How can anyone be proud of a country that: • threatens our former closest friends and allies with tariffs and lack of backing and mocks their leaders. • tries to rewrite and […]

As I sit here this morning, watching the latest news, I am really amazed at what is happening to our country. As I hear that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are possibly on the “chopping block,” I think about how this will affect all of us who count on Social Security — money that we […]

Every American should be outraged over the story of Mahmoud Khalil. Mr. Khalil, a permanent resident, possessing a green card and with a pregnant wife, was recently arrested in New York and sent to a detention facility in Louisiana for having the audacity to exercise his First Amendment rights by publicly supporting Palestinian causes. He […]

We are all welcome here. That’s true whether we come from Boston or Burundi; choose to partner with a man or a woman; feel trapped in one kind of body and want to be in a different body; are agnostic or Christian or Muslim or follow no religion; register as a Republican, a Democrat, an […]