Regarding the Nov. 12 story, “Lewiston on growing list of places living with gun trauma,” and the many recent articles regarding the horrific killings in Lewiston, can we please at the very least change the language from “gun control” to “gun safety”? Gun safety. Gun safety. Gun safety. Language matters. Ellen Boyle Cape Elizabeth

Urging all people with common sense in Maine – Democrat, Republican, independent or not interested in politics – to call Rep. Jared Golden and express support for his commitment to gun safety. Sensible people want gun safety, we have just not taken the time to make our voices heard. The time is now. Let Lewiston […]

For months before he acted, the Lewiston mass shooter told many people about his delusions and his thoughts of violence. As a psychiatrist who has worked with people with severe and persistent mental illness, I am feeling sympathy and sadness for all of the shooter’s family and associates who tried to get him some help. […]

Full disclosure: I have voted in most every election and I am old and retired; that is a lot of elections. Until this year, I had never been on the other side and worked as a poll worker. Honestly, I never knew how much work goes on before and during Election Day. I was so […]

In the Nov. 5 Sunday Telegram, the law firm of Berman & Simmons took out a full-page ad expressing support for the city of Lewiston and its victims following the worst mass shootings ever in Maine. The firm exercised poor taste by including: “When the time comes to seek justice, Berman & Simmons stands ready […]

We need to ban assault weapons, but that will not solve the problem. There are so many guns already in existence everywhere. Who is going to take them out of the hands of their owners? The bigger problem is that we do not have a functioning health care system. We are a society that has […]

On Oct. 19, 12 days following the Hamas terrorist attacks in Israel, newly installed Bowdoin College President Safa Zaki sent an email to the Bowdoin College community explaining the lack of an institutional statement on the matter. As noted in a Bowdoin Orient student newspaper article, Zaki “declined to give a specific position on the […]