Do my fellow Mainers feel the crushing weight of living in a country that has given more rights to guns than women this past year? Have they watched in bewilderment as yet another multi-million dollar condo is built next door to them while they are struggling to find a one-bedroom apartment that doesn’t cost half […]

As a non-Christian, I am rather taken aback by the increasing prominence of Christian nationalism within our country. I always thought that Christian values included the Golden Rule, loving one’s neighbor as oneself, welcoming the stranger, etc. I find such values lacking in the screeds of these right-wingers. I cannot help wondering how the more […]

In response to Walter J. Eno’s letter to the editor (“Jan. 6  testimony should not be admissible” July 4): If he had seen the actual hearing he would know that the only reason the other side is not represented is that those people refused to appear because they don’t want the public to watch them […]

I respectfully disagree with the lady who claims Republican state Senate nominee Eric Brakey will stand up for Mainers’ rights as he did for the Maine Sportsmen’s Alliance’s purported right to carry a concealed weapon without permit or background check. Brakey is a professionally-trained actor who came to Maine in 2012 to direct the failed […]

I am a long-time Maine summer resident and taxpayer on an island in the middle of Penobscot Bay – can someone with better understanding please explain why, after all these years, the state of Maine has not developed high-speed ferry service with adequate capacity like so many island economies in the developed world? If the […]

Jason Allshouse’s (July 1) letter got it right: Abortion is also a man’s issue. Five men and one woman on the Supreme Court just took away a constitutionally protected right of women to terminate an unintended pregnancy. The male impregnators’ role was not mentioned. The same five male justices who empowered states to ban abortions […]

What is misleadingly called a “right to be life” by right-to-life proponents is only a right to be born, provided the mother happens to live in a state that prohibits physician assisted abortion services. Any fetus conceived must be carried to term by a an unwilling mother (who is subjected to involuntary servitude as a […]