The decision to drop “Dilbert” was necessary and important. Scott Adams’ racism is blatant and offensive, and supporting his creative efforts encourages that racism. It is interesting that the strip ran next to “Curtis,” showing the life of a Black boy in this country. Adams’ rant that Black Americans are a “hate group” and that […]

I was disappointed at Jonette Christian’s anti-immigration commentary (“Maine Voices: Rethinking the future – how much growth do we want?” Feb. 24), partly because it was not placed into context. I wonder how the Somalis, Angolans, Ukrainians, Congolese and others who have found shelter in Maine feel. Christian has been on a crusade to curtail […]

Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy and his Republican colleagues want to cut aid to Ukraine. In an article in the Feb. 27 Portland Press Herald, House Republican Rep. Michael McCaul, a member of the House Foreign Relations Committee, chastised President Biden for not sending F-16s to Ukraine. What’s the correct answer? This is a […]

Thank you for discontinuing “Dilbert.” The less airtime we give to racism, misogyny and hatred, the better off we will be as a society and a nation. Nan Graves York

Growing up in Brunswick, in the 1950s, I read most of the comics in the Maine Sunday Telegram; more recently, I have pared my comics reading list to “Peanuts,” “Pickles” and the more acerbic social and political commentary in “Doonesbury” and “Dilbert.” But after reading “Dilbert” cartoonist Scott Adams’ recent bigoted racist rant, I immediately […]

The word “woke” is popular in certain circles today. In her speech after the State of the Union address, Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders framed “woke-ism” as a threat to traditional social values and cohesion. A dystopian future awaits if we don’t stop “woke” policies now, she seemed to say. Wow! Woke is better known […]

I was horrified, and you should be, too, to read Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh’s recent article detailing an attack on the Nord Stream pipelines, allegedly by the Biden administration. Congress must immediately begin investigating and bring the participants of this potential crime to justice. This would be a massive disgrace for our nation, which […]