The question needs to be asked: Would an assault weapons ban become law if there was a mass shooting in the halls of Congress? Tim Bobinsky Portland

So here we have columnist Jim Fossel forlorn in the Republican state government minority. He moans about the GOP status, but his plan for the next term is not re-examination of why the party is losing and, accordingly, sensible adjustments to the needs of the citizens. No. On April 2, Fossel advises to gum up […]

What has our government become? What kind of people have we become? We accept these mass shootings like they’re a weather report. We do nothing about guns because, to Republicans in particular, gun support means votes; to hell with the safety of our children and our people. For our elected officials, it’s all about keeping […]

We needn’t look to Washington to see how how ugly, mean-spirited and destructive our politics have become. We can look to Jim Fossel’s column last Sunday. Fossel knows the Maine Republican Party lost everything in sight in the last election, but he says the Republican minority can still have an impact by what one commenting […]

I concur wholeheartedly with Steve Kaagan’s column last Sunday regarding Americans not valuing life (“Maine Voices: What’s more important, your AR-15 or your kid?” April 2). The only thing Kaagan missed to further prove his point is the continued massacre of innocent babies in their mothers wombs and the continued insistence that COVID-19 is no […]

The judges on the Supreme Court arguably are some of the most powerful people in our country. They decide what cases they hear, rule on laws and can change the course of our democracy with any decision. I have worked for many companies and agencies in my career and have always believed that ethics play […]

There are questions I would put to South Portland in reference to the banning of gas mowers and leaf blowers. How many mowers, weed whackers, leaf blowers and snow blowers does the city currently have? Are they all electric? I doubt it. What is the city’s plan to replace them? More taxes? Making us residents […]