Gov. Mills is being attacked by Paul LePage and the Maine Republican Party for protecting the freedoms of our LGBT+ community. She values life and knows that 82 percent of transgender people have considered suicide, and 40 percent have tried it. Gov. Mills’ role model teaches our children to stand up to abusers who attack […]

My experience as a lawmaker is that we are too often governed by unspoken policies reflecting the limited perspectives of the historically powerful. One result is the imminent loss of reproductive freedoms, long sought by conservatives, which will devastate the lives and livelihoods of the poor and powerless. To fight back, we must elect courageous […]

I read with deep sadness the coverage by the Franklin Journal’s Kay Neufeld of the hollowing out of the humanities at the University of Maine at Farmington (May 22). Of course, the astonishing incompetency of the upper leadership, as well as its cruelty, is nothing new to students, faculty and staff at the University of […]

We are in the midst of an epidemic. An epidemic of guns. Every day there is death or injury because of guns. And what does the federal government do about it? Nothing! What do we do about it? We hold vigils, say prayers and offer condolences. Do they help? No! Seventy percent of the American […]

I am writing in shock and dismay after reading about the termination of a sizable portion of the University of Maine at Farmington humanities staff. I chair an education foundation in the town of Brooksville. A significant number of students to whom we grant scholarships attend the University of Maine System. I am also a […]

In the editorial “Our View: Auburn leads in housing development” in the May 22 edition of the Telegram, the editorial board failed to mention the petition drive among Auburn citizens to stop the insanity of Mayor Jason Levesque’s master plan for the city. Ask yourself if you would like to wake up to a pizza […]

Will someone please tell me: What is the “magic” number of random deaths we are trying to reach in this country? The senseless killings (subway shootings in New York; shootings in Buffalo, California and, most recently, Texas) have become our own macabre “calendar of death.” As a nation, we already lead the world in random […]

Almost entirely missing from current discussion of the Second Amendment are the words “well regulated militia.” Why is this? They could not be more prominent in the amendment! If the purpose of the Second Amendment was the protection and perpetuation of well regulated militias in the new republic, then it has failed miserably. Where are […]