What is wrong with our legislators? Don’t they realize that a majority of Mainers want sensible gun control? Although about 48% have guns, many of them are reasonable in wanting strong background checks even for private sales, a waiting period for sales of guns, bans on AR-type weapons and limits on magazines. Our legislators have […]

Another fair, another chance to teach people that abusing animals is acceptable. That’s what’s happening at the Waterford World’s Fair this month; three days promoting the false narrative that animals are put on Earth to entertain humans. The most troublesome of these events are the daily pig scrambles where children, as young as 5 and […]

I doubt the gentle punishment handed out to Milt Champion, of Maine’s Gambling Control Unit, is going to change his thinking about women, people of color and white supremacists (“Maine sports betting official received 1-week suspension for offensive tweets,” July 8). The punishment is so light as to almost tacitly approve his hateful words. Only after […]

I noticed the news story about the U.S. sending cluster bombs to Ukraine (“AP sources: U.S. will provide cluster munitions to Ukraine as part of a new military aid package,” July 6). Cluster munitions, also called cluster bombs, were banned years ago, though the U.S. is one of the few nations not to sign this […]

I am sending this letter to address a very current topic: rights for the LGBTQ community. Something I don’t hear or see in the news is our community being portrayed as humans, as people who want equal rights, to be respected and treated fairly like all Americans should be. The song says “land of the […]

Portland’s motto: Resurgam, “I shall rise again,” has proven itself appropriate time and again over the 237 years since incorporation. While today’s pressing issues aren’t as dire as the devastation caused by wars, fires and embargos, the city is indeed struggling. So I’m glad to see District 4 City Council member Andrew Zarro put his […]